Re: AC_TRY_LINK command line problem

[Yevgen Muntyan]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Yevgen Muntyan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
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> > > > AC_TRY_LINK puts LDFLAGS before conftest.c on compilation command line...
> > > >        
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>  
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> > For instance for
> >
> > AC_CHECK_FUNCS([FAMMonitorDirectory FAMOpen],[fam_found=yes],[fam_found=no])
> >
> > it produces this command line:
> >
> > gcc -o conftest -g   -L/usr/local/gtk/lib -Wl,--as-needed -lfam conftest.c
> >    
>
> -lfam belongs in LIBS, not in LDFLAGS.  That's your problem, most likely.  
>  
Yes, that was it! And it means normal usage of pkg-config is broken.
In any case, after splitting linker flags into LIBS and LDFLAGS properly
everything compiles and links, both this FAM thing, and python test on
mingw; it does put LIBS after conftest.c. My bug :)

Thank you,
Yevgen