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[Barry Smith]

  Matt,

    It is a good thing you don't come to the new building at the lab, because I would throw you off the top balcony down to the stones. Then I would haul your carcass back up seven flights of stairs and throw you down a second time.

   BuildSystem seems to assume that the C compiler (and also c++ compiler) are ALWAYS also used as the C and C++ linker and there is no way to set a different linker and no way to even figure out how one can set a different linker. Why are the LD arguments commented out and never used?

   Barry



 help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CFLAGS=<string>',       nargs.Arg(None, '',   'Specify the C compiler options'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CXX=<prog>',            nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the C++ compiler'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CXXFLAGS=<string>',     nargs.Arg(None, '',   'Specify the C++ compiler options'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CXX_CXXFLAGS=<string>', nargs.Arg(None, '',   'Specify the C++ compiler-only options'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CXXCPPFLAGS=<string>',  nargs.Arg(None, '',   'Specify the C++ preprocessor options'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-FC=<prog>',             nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the Fortran compiler'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-FFLAGS=<string>',       nargs.Arg(None, '',   'Specify the Fortran compiler options'))

##    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-LD=<prog>',              nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the executable linker'))
##    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CC_LD=<prog>',           nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the linker for C only'))
##    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-CXX_LD=<prog>',          nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the linker for C++ only'))
##    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-FC_LD=<prog>',           nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the linker for Fortran only'))
    help.addArgument('Compilers', '-LD_SHARED=<prog>',       nargs.Arg(None, None, 'Specify the shared linker'))