Hello,

* Dave Korn wrote on Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:41:10AM CEST:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> > I looked into this a little.  It looks like the PPL checks don't work
> > properly in the case where PPL is a system library.  I guess I need
> > --with-ppl=/usr ... I will try that later.
> 
>   Were you using a --prefix?  The PPL checks (by design I think) only look for
> PPL in your prefix.

Just by the way, while it superficially sounds intuitive, I find this a
slightly problematic "feature".  For example when you're cross-compiling,
intending to do a DESTDIR install, and what you pass as --prefix is
inhabited by $build system files and libraries and so on.

My two cents.

Cheers,
Ralf

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