On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Nick Glencross wrote:
> On 26/03/06, Sean Sieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 3/25/06, Nick Glencross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible that a 'make install' has previously been done on this
> > > computer, so that there is a libparrot in /usr/local/lib?
> >
> > Yep; compiling now.
>
> Great. The problem is caused because Configure extracts compile flags
> from Perl, and on some distributions Perl specifies -L/usr/local/lib
> as a linker flag, which has the potential to pick up a bogus old
> parrot library if it has been previously installed.
But specifying -L/usr/local/lib is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to
do, especially if parrot is to be linked with some other library in
/usr/local/lib. Off the top of my head, -lgmp, -lgdbm, and -lreadline are
three examples of libraries that Configure already goes looking for that
might reasonably be looked for in /usr/local/lib.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
