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Re: AC_CHECK_LIB / AC_SEARCH_LIBS buglet
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: AC_CHECK_LIB / AC_SEARCH_LIBS buglet |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:13:22 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello Carson,
thanks for the report.
* Carson Gaspar wrote on Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:24:54PM CET:
> Both AC_CHECK_LIB and AC_SEARCH_LIBS put "-lmylib" before
> OTHER-LIBRARIES. In practice, this causes configure to try things like:
>
> cc foo.c -lmylib -L/path/to/mypkg/lib ...
>
> On Solaris (and other systems) this is fatal, as it is required to
> specify -L before any -l args that live in the path specified by -L.
But adding -L paths needed for -lmylib is not the purpose of the
OTHER-LIBRARIES argument of these macros. That is what $LDFLAGS
is for. Please use that instead. OTHER-LIBRARIES is strictly
for library dependencies of mylib.
Cheers,
Ralf