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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-05-24 07:26:17 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-05-24 07:26:17 +0200
commitc2a7f5db75ca002fdd3f2ca88542599523da5ee1 (patch)
tree1bedb03d1fdf828f09f6ab2f6237407d3eab8996
parentd3abefe5393de8828255bde3cf23ac84a6dd9e7d (diff)
Add note on *-gcc-{ar,ranlib,etc} situation
-rw-r--r--build2/cc/guess.cxx3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/build2/cc/guess.cxx b/build2/cc/guess.cxx
index 10354c3..89030b5 100644
--- a/build2/cc/guess.cxx
+++ b/build2/cc/guess.cxx
@@ -1533,7 +1533,8 @@ namespace build2
// LTO plugin though it seems more recent GNU binutils (2.25) are able
// to load the plugin when needed automatically. So it doesn't seem we
// should bother trying to support this on our end (one way we could do
- // it is by passing config.bin.{ar,ranlib} as hints).
+ // it is by passing config.bin.{ar,ranlib} as hints). Actually, it seems
+ // there are cases with just -gcc-ar and no -ar.
//
if (r.bin_pattern.empty ())
{