I'm working on this..
--Jani
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the config.m4 defines several macros like this
>
> AC_DEFUN(PHP_GD_JPEG,[
> ..
> PHP_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(jpeg, $withval/lib)
> ..
> LIBS="$LIBS -L$withval/lib -ljpeg"
> ])
>
> I.e. it correctly adds the library using PHP-specific macros,
> but then continues in the wrong way by adding some cruft to
> LIBS manually.
>
> I would not be surprised, if this is the reason for the
> problems Jani described. People are already complaining to
> me about this mis-feature in 4.0.5 which causes other checks
> to fail in non-obvious ways.
>
> Unfortunately, we cannot simply rip them out as
> PHP_GD_CHECK_VERSION depends on being able to link a program
> against libgd.a successfully and that only works, if gd's
> auxiliary libraries are present.
>
> So, what I would propose is to reset the LIBS/LDFLAGS
> variables after leaving the body of AC_ARG_WITH(gd ..) to the
> state they had before entering it. That should leave the
> current functionality intact and it prevents the
> modifications to "infect" the rest of the system.
>
> Comments?
>
> - Sascha Experience IRCG
> http://schumann.cx/ http://schumann.cx/ircg
>
>
>
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