> To answer the question, it works because the CFLAGS happen to be applied > to the linker command as well as the LDFLAGS. As Roland says, though, > adding it to CFLAGS is the wrongest fix, forcing it into LDFLAGS via the > spec file is slightly less wrong, but having the upstream code add the > flag properly during its configure stage is least wrong. The main point of entirely pointless pedanticism I was making is that you really should put -lfoo at the end of a linking command line (after all the .o files), not at the beginning where ${LDFLAGS} usually goes. For cases like this, it probably doesn't make a great deal of sense to use a configure test. That is, the call to some X11* function is not conditional in the source, so -lX11 need not be conditional in the makefile. When there is no true need to conditionalize anything, extra autoconf and/or pkg-config magic just makes everything more arcane for no reason. Thanks, Roland -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel