In a cross-compilation context, the LDFLAGS variable contains linker flags used when building things for the target. However, the makeuctb tool is built for the host machine, and therefore should not use the same LDFLAGS as the target, which is why BUILD_LDFLAGS exist.
Using LDFLAGS when building a tool for the host can cause problems when some flags in LDFLAGS are not supported by the host machine. For example, if you're linking statically lynx for the target, but the build machine does not support static linking: gcc -I../.. -I../../src -I../../src/chrtrans -I../../WWW/Library/Implementation -I../../ -static -o makeuctb makeuctb.o /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@bootlin.com> --- src/chrtrans/makefile.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/chrtrans/makefile.in b/src/chrtrans/makefile.in index aab358f..6e0ef03 100644 --- a/src/chrtrans/makefile.in +++ b/src/chrtrans/makefile.in @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ OBJS = makeuctb$o C_SRC = $(OBJS:$o=.c) $(MAKEUCTB) : $(OBJS) - $(BUILD_CC) $(CC_OPTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(BUILD_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(INTLLIB) $(BUILD_LIBS) + $(BUILD_CC) $(CC_OPTS) $(BUILD_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(INTLLIB) $(BUILD_LIBS) makeuctb$o : $(srcdir)/UCkd.h $(srcdir)/makeuctb.c -- 2.14.3 _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
