After "upgrading" to Mavericks and Xcode 5, I have a variety of minor problems to deal with to make Xcode compile some of my older projects.
It appears that Xcode is passing a new argument to the ld
linker, and there's really no stopping Xcode from doing so. An older version of ld
, which I need for a variety of reasons, gives an error when seeing an argument it doesn't know (so my projects cannot compile).
What I need is a thin wrapper over my older version of ld
to remove the "bad" arguments under certain circumstances. I thought that a bash shell script would be perfect, but bash is not my forte.
Here's what I've got:
# Look for conditions necessary to use older ld
... # (placeholder, obviously)
# Run older ld (pseudo condition)
if [ <old_ld_condition> ]; then
ARGS=''
for var in "$@"; do
# Ignore known bad arguments
if [ "$var" = '-dependency_info' ]; then
continue
fi
ARGS="$ARGS $var"
done
/path/to/old/ld "$ARGS"
else
/path/to/new/ld "$@"
fi
However, running /path/to/old/ld "$ARGS"
results in ld
interpreting the entire $ARGS
string as one argument. Running /path/to/old/ld $ARGS
results in ld
receiving unescaped versions of previously escaped strings.
Clearly, I'm misunderstanding something about the nature of $@
, how to manipulate it, and how to pass that manipulation to the older ld
. Thanks everyone.
This should work:
# Run older ld (pseudo condition)
if [[ <old_ld_condition> ]]; then
args=()
for var; do
# Ignore known bad arguments
[[ $var != '-dependency_info' ]] && args+=("$var")
done
/path/to/old/ld "${args[@]}"
else
/path/to/new/ld "$@"
fi