The problem is that on FreeBSD -ldl is not available or required, the functionality is provided by libc Nicholas "Indy" Ray On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray" <arelius@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Indeed, I've sent in a small patch for a warning I got on FreeBSD, >> however I'm not sure how to get autoconf to check the host system, >> I'll examine other locations in the code and see if I can't cobble a >> patch together. > > When possible, a configure script should test for features, not > operating systems. So, for example, the goal would be not to check > for FreeBSD, but rather to check for the availability of -ldl, which > is typically done using AC_CHECK_LIB. > > Ian >
