Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Jul 1, 2006, at 21:42, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >> (1) I don't know all those -libraries are being listed, the test >> program certainly doesn't need them... yes, the linker should >> know to ignore them as unused... but: >> >> (2) This is not Linux so that -lgmp and -lreadline are not "standard" >> but have been compiled and installed by the sysadmins (not admin) >> and: >> >> (3) They most definitely have not been compiled with cxx, >> but most probably with gcc. And I have no idea whether >> the libreadline.so actually works, since I haven't lately >> tried to compile anything with it. In non-Linux systems >> one cannot always assume installed GNU stuff works and/or >> is uptodate... > > -lgmp or -lreadline are either just coming from (a) the equivalent perl > settings or are the result of an (b) earlier test. > For (a) the libs could be disabled in the hints file [1]. > For (b) we'd need some commandline and hints settings like: > 'no-readline' or such, which disables this lib.
But the -lreadline is needed for something later? > [1] config/init/hints/* > > leo > >
