On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:57:31AM -0500, Nik Conwell wrote about '3.0.20 Alpha configure on AIX4.3 for -lcom_err broken': > > I cvs'ed the latest 3.0.20 Alpha this morning... > > On the configure, the test for _et_list in libcom_err.a doesn't seem to ever > work, even though _et_list is in com_err. Perhaps it's marked as private? > (IBM cc or gcc, makes no difference.) This results in no -lcom_err being added > to LIBS, and so the build of the smbd fails due to not finding _et_list and > error_message(). Manually adding -lcom_err to LIBS causes things to build OK. > > I hacked the configure to look for error_message() in -lcom_err instead of > looking for _et_list, and that seems to have worked OK. > > I'm not sure what this means for systems that don't need -lcom_err since the > test apparently only checks to see if it builds with the lib, and not if the lib > is superfluous. Please don't send in patches to configure, but to configure.in instead. Configure is autogenerated.
Is there anything useful in config.log that indicates why the test for _et_list in -lcom_err fails? Jelmer
