On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 07:03 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> emacs won't benefit from the patch until it upgrades to using the
> as-yet-unreleased autoconf 2.63, so you will have to continue to carry
> an emacs-specific patch for some time
That shouldn't be a problem. By then the final solution will look
different enough that the `configure' patch will fail and remind the
Redhat Emacs maintainer to drop the patch.
> Would you mind posting a proposed patch ported to the autoconf sources?
DISCLAIMER: I know little about autoconf so the attached patch probably
clobbers compatibility with scads of systems.
Brad Walker
--- lib/autoconf/libs.m4 2008-04-24 08:37:47.000000000 -0600
+++ lib/autoconf/libs.m4 2008-04-24 08:37:59.000000000 -0600
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
*) test -f "$ac_im_incroot/X11/Xos.h" && ac_x_includes=$ac_im_incroot;;
esac
case $ac_im_usrlibdir in
- /usr/lib | /lib) ;;
+ /usr/lib | /usr/lib64 | /lib | /lib64) ;;
*) test -d "$ac_im_usrlibdir" && ac_x_libraries=$ac_im_usrlibdir ;;
esac
fi
