Re: Re: have headers & libs, but cannot configure/make

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/05/2017 02:37 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 17:42:46 -0800, Chris Roat wrote:
> > <elided>/gcc -std=gnu11 -o conftest --sysroot=<elided> -m64  -mcld -fopenmp
> >  -fopenmp -I<elided>/pcre -I<elided>/SuiteSparse_config --sysroot=<elided>
> > -m64  -mcld -fopenmp -lstdc++ conftest.c -lpcre -lm
> >
> > <elided>: error: cannot find -lpcre
> > /tmp/cc0c03Xl.o:conftest.c:function main: error: undefined reference to
> > 'pcre_compile'
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > configure:30566: $? = 1
>
> Ok, so it's only missing the appropriate -L option here. Octave's
> configure currently does not have a PCRE_LDFLAGS variable, and it
> probably should.

I added that when I made this change:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8e9dd0d6e337

Does it work now for linking your pcre library?

jwe