https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78698
Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> ---
(In reply to Matthias Klose from comment #1)
> didn't check a configuration with --disable-shared :-/ What about checking
> for a $bdw_lib_dir/libgc.la and in that case setting BDW_GC_LIBS to
> $bdw_lib_dir/libgc.la and skipping the compile and link tests? I assume we
> could do a file check for the header file as well for this case.
>
> --- configure.ac (revision 243108)
> +++ configure.ac (working copy)
> @@ -290,10 +293,19 @@
> AC_MSG_ERROR([no multilib path ($mldir) found in
> --with-target-bdw-gc-lib])
> fi
> BDW_GC_CFLAGS="-I$bdw_inc_dir"
> - BDW_GC_LIBS="-L$bdw_lib_dir -lgc"
> + if test -f $bdw_lib_dir/libgc.la; then
> + BDW_GC_LIBS="$bdw_lib_dir/libgc.la"
> + else
> + BDW_GC_LIBS="-L$bdw_lib_dir -lgc"
> + fi
> AC_MSG_RESULT([found])
> fi
>
> + case "$BDW_GC_LIBS" in
> + *libgc.la)
> + use_bdw_gc=yes
> + ;;
> + *)
> AC_MSG_CHECKING([for system boehm-gc])
> save_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
> save_LIBS=$LIBS
> @@ -329,6 +341,7 @@
> use_bdw_gc=yes
> AC_MSG_RESULT([found])
> fi
> + esac
> esac
>
> if test "$use_bdw_gc" = no; then
Note that some package managers automatically delete .la files as part of the
installation process. I suppose it'd just fall through to the compile-and-link
tests in that case, though, which might still work...
