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Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:28:58 -0700
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:30:37PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > - libjava, libiberty, libstdc++-v3, boehm-gc, zlib, libffi all do
> > linkage tests which I see no easy way to avoid.
>
> I believe that some of those tests are only done in the case when we know
> we're not cross-compiling. More precisely, the linkage test is only done
> in one or two macros, and those are only called by a single macro, and that
> single macro {is,used to be} called in the case of a native build. I could
> be thinking about something else though, and I don't have sources handy.
I think we'll be better off if people who know each individual library
do fixes for their own configure scripts. My crude fixes by guesswork
are not getting anywhere fast.
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