compile source package commoncpp2-1.2.4

[Vasudeva Martin]

Dear Sir and Madam,

I wannted to install the commoncpp2-1.2.4 package. on my SUSE Linux 9.1. 
When i tried to, i recognized the following behavior the configure 
script aborted with the message that there was no lib for threads found 
after checking for pthread_self and pthread_kill in different thread 
libraries. I checked the pthread library with "strings 
/usr/lib/pthread.a | grep -e self -e kill" and saw that the wanted 
symbols exist. Another test was that i wrote in a configure.in of a 
project  the line "AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread,pthread_self,echo pthread 
yesss!)" and after an autoconf the configure script answered the test 
with yes. Then i done a ./reconfig in the commoncpp2-1.2.4 Folder but 
this didn't help, too. The solution i found was start configure as shown 
at the next line:
"./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib"
After that the configure script succeeded and i was able to  compile and 
install the package.
I'm just wondering that it is nessacery tell your package the standard 
path for libraries.

With kind regards
Vasudeva Martin