On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:57 -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:38 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > 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. > > I can't figure out how to disable the test in the autoconf script, but I > have modified configure.ac to remove -Wl,--as-needed when checking for > libreadline.
I reverted my change. The problem was with libreadline on my system. Fixed now so -Wl,--as-needed is correct as is in the generated configure script. -- David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat / Westford, MA
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