Re: AC_PATH_XTRA and -rpath

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:55 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Peter O'Gorman" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This patch will now add -R to X_LIBS for all systems.
> 
> It's not supposed to.  It's supposed to try -R, and add it only if it
> worked.
> 
> > I tried just
> > now on Mac OS X to see the result: powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1:
> > unrecognized option '-R/usr/X11R6/lib'
> 
> Thanks for checking this.  Did you try using -R yourself; or did you
> try patching Autoconf, using it to generate "configure", running
> "configure", and seeing whether "configure" added -R?  If the former,
> we should be OK; if the latter, we have a problem.

I used autoconf head with a simple configure.ac and Makefile.am, that I
wrote just for this test. It failed. The -R flag was added on a machine
that does not support -R.

see http://pogma.com/misc/autoscrewup.txt for the transcript.

Peter

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