Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Sander Niemeijer wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:54:12PM CET: >>> >>> I have some self written autoconf tests that check for linking >>> shared libraries against some specific other libraries (these other >>> libraries should be available as shared libraries or we might have >>> a PIC problem. That is what my tests checks for). For this I had to >>> create a variant >> >> *snip* >> >> I agree with your view of things. I think we should allow this to >> be done. >> >> Gary, you did the whole bootstrap reorganization. Is anything close >> to this possible? > > The theory: > > It is my belief that an actual link should not be necessary to test > for some characteristic.
*snip* as the rest assumed this is true. It is indeed very useful to actually test if linking succeeds and thereby check if a given lib contains a given symbol. What better way to do the linking test than to use a tool that "hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface"? The mere existence of the AC_LINK_IFELSE macro (and AC_RUN_IFELSE for that matter) suggests that I'm not alone in thinking it is useful to link in configure scripts... Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
