David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While working on parted-1.8.3, I'm hitting a problem with the configure
> script. After bootstrapping the tree, a plain './configure' run fails
> to find libreadline. I tracked down the problem to an incorrect linker
> flag used in the test:
>
> -Wl,--as-needed
>
> That's added to LDFLAGS early in the configure script run. Here's the
> test line that is printed to the terminal:
>
> checking for flag to ignore unused libraries... -Wl,--as-needed
>
> How do we disable this test? I know very little about autoconf and
> automake and don't know where to look. Remove that from the LDFLAGS
> lets it compile correctly, but whatever the correct course of action is
> for autoconf/automake is what I want to do.
On Debian, we're supporting the --as-needed usage since it reduces the
dependency chain a lot.
I think that it might be optional.
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