Re: EXTRA_LDFLAGS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:55:37AM -0500, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> Two issues:
>   1. The patch below fixes a problem in configure.in whereby
>      `$GXX --version` is being called when $GXX != "g++". Also,
>      I redid the test -n "$GCC" with test "$GCC" = yes because
>      configure has tests of the latter case at the beginning
>      (and because it seems more correct).

thanks.
 
>   2. The value of EXTRA_LDFLAGS if --enable-rpath is given for Solaris is:
>      EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-R ../lib:\$(libdir) $EXTRA_LDFLAGS"
> 
>      Is this really a wise thing? I might need some correcting on this but
...
>      I know why ../lib is chosen but I dislike it.

iirc, the reason why is that it won't link otherwise (yes, it is ugly, but
given the number of people who try to run the applications without installing
them, it seems the best solution).  But it is restrictive (doesn't really
allow rearrangement of the pieces after linking).

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