On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian White wrote: > Package: autoconf > Version: 2.53 > > When testing for the existance of functions in libraries, the LIBS > variable is located after the LDFLAGS variable. I was wondering if it > would make more sense to always put the LDFLAGS variable at the end. > > Currently: > > ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5' > > Suggested: > > ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS $LDFLAGS >&5' > > The reason for this is some LDFLAGS (such as "-lc" required for uclinux) > have to be at the end of the line. LDFLAGS should be reserved for linker flags. All libraries should be specified via LIBS. > I tried setting the LIBS variable to "-lc" on the command line (while > removing it from the LDFLAGS variable) and that worked for the initial > configure but failed if I did ./config-status --recheck because the > LIBS varible was not saved and re-set (though CFLAGS and LDFLAGS were). That sounds like a bug. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
