[Caml-list] ocamlmktop linking on Darwin

[Lex Stein <stein@eecs.harvard.edu>]

Hello,

OSX Darwin's default linker is not GNU ld.  Interestingly,
and unfortunately, Darwin's ld does not like "L .". Ocamlmktop
automatically calls gcc with "L .". Is there any way to tell
ocamlmktop to get rid of the space between the `L` and the `.`?
"L." works just fine.

Here is an example of what happens:

ocamlmktop -verbose -o footop -custom unix.cma \
foo.cma -ccopt "-L/usr/local/foo/lib/"
+ gcc  -o 'footop' -I'/usr/local/lib/ocaml' -L/usr/local/foo/lib/ -L .
/tmp/camlprim4813cc.c  '-L/usr/local/lib/ocaml' '-lcamlfoo' '-ldb' '-lunix'
-lcamlrun
/usr/bin/ld: -L: directory name missing
Error while building custom runtime system
make: *** [footop] Error 2

The following simple example illustrates what happens when the `.`
is moved away from the `L`:

[cstein-4:~/charles] castein% gcc -o foo -L. test.c
[cstein-4:~/charles] castein% gcc -o foo -L . test.c
/usr/bin/ld: -L: directory name missing

I hope that Ocamlmktop can solve this, allowing me to
avoid a non-trivial install of GNU binutils.

Thanks,
Lex




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