Re: RFE: configure -> dependency list on exit.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> > Alas, it is not that easy.  If you have 16 possible libraries you need to 
> > link against, it may be that library 5 provides what you were looking for 
> > (and need), but library 14 needed something else from library 5 (maybe 
> > optional symbols, or an extra library dependency) that it failed to 
> > provide. This causes a failure when testing library 14, but the 
> > originating problem was in library 5.
>
> Yes, so library 5 is a dependency of library 14.
> That's what I'm trying to express (in my later post).

However, it is not a *known* (to the configure script developer) 
dependency.  The failure is due to an indirect dependency.

Bob
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