Re: Mailutils configuration, some work needed

[Sam Roberts]

Bonjour,

Quoting Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I tried to build this morning, but I'm having trouble.
> > argp needs functions in lib, which needs argp. You didn't find this?
> 
> Yes, now I see it. I didn't notice it before because I was trying
> the stuff on a system with glibc, which already has argp support :^)
> 
> Uncommenting Jeff's changes to argp/Makefile.am (line 18) solves
> the problem, but they seem to have caused trouble on QNX
> haven't they? Anyway, I quite agree with your proposition of
> moving argp to libmailutils:

The problem was that the line 18 was causing object files in lib/
being incorporated into libargp.a. So, if you change a .c file
in lib/, rebuild lib/, then relink, you don't get the .o file from
libmailutils.a, instead you get the OLD one from libargp.a.

This isn't QNX specific, except that its possible that newer
versions of libtool, which work fine on QNX except don't support
shared objects, contain some features that may work around this,
I'm not sure.

> > If the auto* tools don't have a way to fix link cycles, what do you
> > think of just moving the argp source into lib? It seems lib consists
> > mostly of gnu library functions, and argp is unique only in the
> > number of files, other than that its a piece of glibc.
> 
> Any objections if I do that? Alain? Jeff?
> 
> Regards
> Sergey

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