Re: AM_PROG_LEX does not set LEXLIB properly

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Pete" == Pete Ryland <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Pete> configure:7958: checking for yywrap in -lfl
 Pete> configure:7989: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lfl   >&5
 Pete> configure:7992: $? = 0
 Pete> configure:7995: test -s conftest
 Pete> configure:7998: $? = 0
 Pete> configure:8010: result: yes

[...]

 Pete> It's only when doing explicit linking does it fail it seems.

Could you try ./configure CC='gcc -v' ?  Maybe you'll find out
(in config.log) that gcc passes -L/opt/sfw/lib to the linker.

[...]

 Pete> $ grep LD= libtool 
 Pete> LD="gld"

 Pete> but then:

 Pete> $ make
 Pete> ...
 Pete> /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2    -o libpsfp.la -rpath 
/home/peter/local/lib  psfp_parser.lo psfp_scanner.lo -L/home/peter/local/lib 
-L/home/peter/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -L/home/peter/local/lib -lpcre 
-lmysqlclient -lpcre
 Pete> rm -fr .libs/libpsfp.la .libs/libpsfp.* .libs/libpsfp.*
 Pete> gcc -shared  psfp_parser.lo psfp_scanner.lo  -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,/home/peter/local/lib/mysql -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/peter/local/lib 
-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/peter/local/lib/mysql -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,/home/peter/local/lib  -L/home/peter/local/lib 
-L/home/peter/local/lib/mysql /home/peter/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so 
/home/peter/local/lib/libpcre.so -lc  -Wl,-soname -Wl,libpsfp.so.0 -o 
.libs/libpsfp.so.0.0.0
 Pete> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
 Pete> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
 Pete> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
 Pete> /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- -
 Pete> ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken
 Pete> usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] 
file(s)
 Pete> ...

 Pete> The relevant part of config.log is:

 Pete> configure:3405: checking for ld used by GCC
 Pete> configure:3468: result: gld

I guess that means it's a bad idea to override LD, since GCC
obviously calls /usr/ccs/bin/ld in the end.

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz