Re: AC_TRY_LINK with libtool libraries

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  1, 2001, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is a known deficiency in the coupling between libtool and autoconf, 
> which needs fixing at some point.  In the mean time how about (wild guess 
> here!):

>   save_CC=$CC
>   CC="${SHELL-/bin/sh} ${top_srcdir)/libtool $CC"
>   AC_TRY_LINK(blah)
>   CC=$save_CC

This doesn't work.  libtool needs two-pass compile&link, whereas
AC_TRY_LINK assumes $CC can take a source file and generate an
executable directly out of it.

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