Hi, Although gettext-0.19.7 is the focus of this message it could equally apply
to dozens of open source packages I try and build. I am trying to build gettext
and after doing "./configure --help" I saw it can use some packages I already
have installed. The './configure --help' output contains:
--with-libiconv-prefix[=DIR] search for PACKLIBS in DIR/include and DIR/lib
--with-libxml2-prefix[=DIR] search for PACKLIBS in DIR/include and DIR/lib
FYI: The help also lists the following twice!
--with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no]
In the end I wrote a script to try and explore what was going on, I run
configure
four times saving the generated "config.log" and "Makefile" for each of the
following.
1 ./configure),
2 ./configure --with-libpth-prefix=/usr/local
3 ./configure --with-libpth-prefix=/usr/local --with-libxml2-prefix
--with-libiconv-prefix
4 ./configure --with-libpth-prefix=/usr/local
--with-libxml2-prefix=/usr/local --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local
Case 1,2 and 4 produced equivalent "config.log" and stdout messages. Comparing
1 and 3 there were minor differences.
Looking at the produced installed libs all seemed the same. Is the expected
behaviour.
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