Re: 2.59 and Explicit libc linking checks

2006-03-04 Thread Paul Eggert
"Rafael Rivera Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't autoconf read in the > configure.ac and spit out the configure script? Yes, but it also reads other files. > The configure.ac for the gettext package has no references to this > code. But other files do, and

Re: 2.59 and Explicit libc linking checks

2006-03-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Rafael, * Rivera, R wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:38:34PM CET: > > New to this list. It seems the logic behind determining whether or not libc > should be explicitly linked is backwards (in a generated configure script). This is a Libtool question, and as such would've fit better on one of

Re: 2.59 and Explicit libc linking checks

2006-03-03 Thread Paul Eggert
"Rivera, R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (eval $archive_cmds 2\>\&1 \| grep \" -lc \" \>/dev/null 2\>\&1) 2>&5 That doesn't appear to be Autoconf code; most likely it was in some of the macros or the configure.ac file of the package you're looking at, and Autoconf simply copied the code into "co

Re: 2.59 and Explicit libc linking checks

2006-03-03 Thread Rafael Rivera Jr.
Ralf, Thanks for the libtool pointer. I have CCed the proper list but intend on removing autoconf@gnu.org in future replies. On SkyOS (and cross-compiling tools for SkyOS on Cygwin), libsky gets implicitly linked but because we failed this check, -lc is getting added ( archive_cmds_need_lc=y