"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> | I still had to add $(FRONTEND_LIBS) to lyx_LDADD and rearrange the order
>> | (reverse position of -ljpeg and -lforms) as above to get it to link.
>>
>> That implies a problem with libtool on cygwin.
>
| Thank you, Lars, for this message!
>
| It caused me to look deeper (past my superficial solution).
>
| Here is the real problem: in frontends/libfrontends.la, the libtool
| variable dependency_libs is set to '-ljpeg -lforms -lXpm'
>
| On Cygwin, the order of the libraries matters. Changing that to
| '-lforms -ljpeg -lXpm' gets LyX to link.
>
| I don't know which file I need to tweak in order to get this change
| in properly. You are the autotools expert. Please help!
The order is defined in the configure machinery. I guess it would be
pretty easy to change the order to be the correct one, we must
change the order of some of the configure tests.
[looking]...
No, look at line 174 in configure.in, as jou can see there it is easy
to change the order. Can you tweak this and sent a patch when you have
everything working?
--
Lgb
