Re: OpenSSL checking rewritten

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I mean the "Try to autodetect runtime library flag[...]" script
> fragment.  If we convinced AC_CHECK_LIB to invoke `libtool
> --mode=link ${LD}' instead of just `${LD}' we could get rid of it.

I was reminded why this won't work.  Because libtool simply *doesn't*
handle the "gcc-inserts-dash-L/usr/local/lib-but-not-dash-R" problem!

That's what made me change configure in the first place.

Perhaps this works better with Libtool 1.4.  That has to be
investigated, but after 1.7.