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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | bug#9728: Incorrect -L flags order for HP-UX |
Date: | Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:39:56 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
It should be possible for the user to build a package doing ./configure ..options..; make LDFLAGS=-fancyflag CPPFLAGS=-I/want/coffee;I don't think this should be allowed: MPFR does some tests at configure time based on the current environment. If the user modifies the environment at make time, the configure tests no longer make sense (e.g. modifying LDFLAGS at make time can select a different GMP version). So, if the user does this, it is up to
Actually, the user should be allowed to shoot themselves in the foot if they request it. LDFLAGS should be set including the user-provided setting during the entire configure run so test results should be valid. I know that MPFR configure does work differently than almost any other software package.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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