From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 5 13:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11759 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11653; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-31.camalott.com [208.229.74.31] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA32175; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:51:05 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00410; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:51:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:51:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806052051.PAA00410@detlev.UUCP> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru CC: peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980605150554.B15856@nagual.pp.ru> (message from =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= on Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:05:54 +0400) Subject: Re: lorder problem: aout vs. elf (and GNU Configure problem too) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <19980605123736.A20838@nagual.pp.ru> <199806051051.SAA00749@spinner.netplex.com.au> <19980605150554.B15856@nagual.pp.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>> /usr/lib/libc.a (now moved to /usr/lib/aout) is also often parsed by GNU >>> Configure :-( >> Huh?? Such as? Almost all the GNU configure scripts test for presense of >> libc routines by a compile attempt. I've never seen an autoconf script > Yes, but I see at least three times when /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1 will > be nm'ed by Configure. I can't remember which ports affected right now, > but soon somebody hit in this and we'll see... If these are GNU programs, please let me know. GNU programs generally shouldn't rely on compilation internals like that. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message