Re: [changeset] GraphicsMagick++ configuration

[David Grundberg]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 27-Aug-2009, Thomas Treichl wrote:
>
> | David Grundberg schrieb:
> | > Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> | >> I applied this, updating also src/oct-conf.h.in and src/toplev.cc,
> | >> which was necessary.
> | >>
> | >> regards
> | > 
> | > Yes, I saw that you did so.
> | > 
> | > Thanks,
> | > David
> | 
> | That change causes a failing GraphicsMagick++ test for me. I changed
> | 
> |    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $MAGICK_CPPFLAGS"
> |    LDFLAGS="$LIBS $MAGICK_LDFLAGS"
> |    LIBS="$LIBS $MAGICK_LIBS"
> | 
> | (cf. LDFLAGS line) to
> | 
> |    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $MAGICK_CPPFLAGS"
> |    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $MAGICK_LDFLAGS"
> |    LIBS="$LIBS $MAGICK_LIBS"
> | 
> | then it worked for me again. If this is the right thing to do then can you 
> | please make such a change? Thanks,
>
> In the configure script, I would not modify LDFLAGS, but instead just
> do
>
>   save_LIBS="$LIBS"
>   LIBS="$MAGICK_LDFLAGS $MAGICK_LIBS $LIBS"
>
>   ...
>
>   LIBS="$save_LIBS"
>
> I checked in the following change.
>
>   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8dc1531e2149
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>   


Thanks for fixing the typo, John. I'm curious; from reading the autoconf 
manual, LIBS are for -l flags, and LDFLAGS are for the rest. Why do you 
prefer using LIBS only?

David