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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: georgn@canada.Sun.COM
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: 20.3 beta 1 failure
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Georg" == Georg Nikodym <georgn@canada> writes:

Georg> The conftest programs are failing because --site-runtime-libraries is
Georg> not being used to add -R directives to the compilation command which
Georg> is why some of us are getting SIZEOF_LONG = 0

Georg> If I can cobble together a fix with my remaining patience, I will
Georg> post.

Please don't.  I understand this problem, and am working on fixing it.

I'm working towards having configuration compiles and links have the
same flags as the final "real" build.  The runtime-libraries were
missed.

BTW:  autoconf2 doesn't really seem to have any support for runtime
lib flags - we'll have to roll our own, as usual.

Georg> <rant>
Georg> This is in fact a symptom of a long standing beef of mine WRT
Georg> to these configuration utilities.  I believe that I've said before
Georg> that things like movemail don't need to be linked with every friggin
Georg> library that ships with the OS.
Georg> </rant>

There would certainly have to be a lot more work towards identifying
which programs need which functions, and translate that into -l
flags.  I've done part of the job by ensuring that most of the lib-src 
binaries be built without X libs.  If you have ideas for going further,
I'd like to hear them.

Martin

