On 05/22/2014 07:39 AM, James L. Barker wrote: > OS: RHEL 6.5 Have you considered raising a support ticket with Red Hat?
> Autoconf: 2.63 This is not the latest version; perhaps a configure script generated by a newer autoconf improves the behavior? > Automake: 1.11.1 > > I have a library compiled as a mylib.a without Position Independent Code. > > When I put the following line in my configure.ac file, the library is > not found. > LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/packages/lib" > AC_CHECK_LIB(mylib, function) > > The ./configure script can't find -lmylib. What was the exact error message in config.log? It may be that you are hitting a real limitation of your toolchain, where the linker refuses to link against incompatible libraries, in which case, it is not a bug in autoconf but in your setup. > > I recompiled mylib.a with the -fPIC options, and all of a sudden > ./configure can now find it. > > Does the ./configure not work with libraries that haven't been compiled > with position independent code, or is this a bug? > > When I do a nm on both the PIC and non-PIC library, the symbols are > clearly listed. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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