Re: why -lc on AIX

[Matt Schalit]

Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Why libtool (1.4) insists on directly linking libc on almost all systems?


There have been several similar bug reports on the subject of -lc
here over the past few months (if not longer).  What's happening,
I think, is that somebody smart is loaded down with other work :-)

If you look at the configure scripts, they use a screwed up
grep -lc sort of syntax instead of grep -e -lc, which makes
sure that the -lc is not treated as a switch.

The result of that faulty test is a syntax error return value,
a 2, rather than a 1 or a 0, and the configure interprets that
to mean, "this system needs -lc"

Check out the posts from me, Larry Roseman, and Boyd Gerber.
Matthew