I've created a simple shared library that I placed at a non-standard
location for illustration purposes. Imagine I want to configure a package
to link against that library:
$ cat configure.in
AC_INIT(.)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_OUTPUT
# With Autoconf 2.13:
$ LIBS='-L/tmp/obscure -ltest' ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... yes
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
(everything okay)
# With Autoconf 2.50-to-be:
$ LIBS='-L/tmp/obscure -ltest' ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled
programs.
To enable cross compilation, use `--host'.
This is pretty silly.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/
