Re: conditionally linking to mingw32 library

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Mark" == Mark Brand <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Mark> "my_old_LIBS" and "my_ac_save_LIBS" were meant to be the same variable,
 Mark> right?

Yep.  Bits of this code were stolen from Curl's configure.ac.

 Mark> Thanks. Even though "./configure --with-msw --target=i586-mingw32msvc
 Mark> --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i386-linux" 

./configure --with-msw --host=i586-mingw32msvc

 Mark> reports that that it finds gethostbyname in ws2_32, the
 Mark> generated Makefile has a line:

 Mark> LIBS =

 Mark> I must be missing something obvious.

Maybe.  It works fine for me.  Could you post a complete test
case with instructions to reproduce your problem?
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz