[PATCH] Driver: add support for linker file lists

Reid Kleckner rnk at google.com
Wed Jun 11 18:31:19 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, I had hoped we could push this way down, basically making it an
> implementation detail of how we invoke sub-processes: if we want to
> pass too many command line arguments on certain platforms, put them
> all in a response file.
>
> But if it's as Saleem says, that some linkers only support this "file
> lists" format, I guess that makes it trickier.
>

We were never going to be able to push response files all the way down into
the subprocess code, because at the very least you need to know what
quoting rules to use for paths / arguments with spaces.
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