Re: compilation of libio failing on linux/libc6

[Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de]

On Tue, 27 January 1998, 07:43:40, jhpb@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us wrote:

 > >>>>> "MH" == Manfred Hollstein <Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de> writes:
 > 
 >     MH> I guess this could be caused by the latest change to the top-level configure
 >     MH> script which was emitting the various Makefile fragments in the wrong order.
 > 
 >     MH> Could you please post the contents of `libraries/libio/Makefile'?
 > 
 > Here you go.
 > 
 [Makefile deleted]

Yup, I just saw in the top-level ChangeLog:

1997-09-15 02:37  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

        * configure: Rewrite so that project Makefile fragment is inserted
        first and appears last in the resulting Makefile.

But this is contrary to the comment in `configure':

	# the four makefile fragments MUST end up in the resulting Makefile in this order:
        # package, target, host, and site.

And I still believe that this order is correct; to fix the Linux stuff I think
we need to split the package_fragment_stuff into two parts: one defining package
related macros and one defining rules, dependancies, etc.

The final Makefile then will contain in this order:

	1. srcdir, VPATH, other configure'd macros
	2. package macros
	3. target
	4. host
	5. site
	6. package rules
	7. ...

In 2. package macros we then define the 99% default:

  _G_CONFIG_H=_G_config.h

while in 3. linux.mt we'll override that by

  _G_CONFIG_H=

and _before_ it's value will be used in any rule, ...

I'll send a patch for this.

Manfred