The following reply was made to PR config/2372; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: SL Baur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: config/2372: If libcrypt is installed, it will be used even if compiling for libc5 Date: 07 Jun 1998 22:59:15 -0700 Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Jun 1998, Steve Baur wrote: >> + doing sanity check on compiler and options >> ld: warning: libc.so.6, needed by /usr/lib/libcrypt.so, may conflict with >> libc.so.5 >> >> The Linux test for detecting -lcrypt is too aggressive. I have all >> compiler options set to values which worked for building against libc5 >> on a libc6 system (it worked in 1.2.6), except that -lcrypt gets >> detected (it's there) even when I try to make a libc5 binary. > Actually, no, I'd be more tempted to say that if your compiler can find a > libcrypt which doesn't work with the settings you gave, then that's a > problem with the settings you gave. There's nothing we can do to work > around broken compiler settings... My compiler settings were not broken though. After I hand-edited all the Makefiles to remove the spurious -lcrypt's which Configure added, it built (and ran) correctly under libc5. Oh, well. Do what you will.
