Re: compile order of LDFLAGS and LIBS

[Brian White]

> > The scripts generated by "autoconf" will make use of any existing LIBS
> > environment variable in much the same way as CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are used.
> > When doing tests for libraries, the lib being tested is prefixed to that
> > variable and the test made.
> >
> > However, the value of the LIBS envionment variable is not saved in the
> > "config.status" file to be used again when "./config.status --recheck"
> > is run.  Thus, it is possible to have it configure correctly the first
> > time but not when it is re-checked.
> 
> Is this also true if LIBS is specified on configure's command line
> rather than as an environment variable?  It seems to me that
> config.status should save the entire configure command line.

Yes.  In fact, that was how I did it.  In both cases the value is passed
as an enviroment variable to the application.

    CFLAGS="..." LDFLAGS="..." LIBS="-lc" ./configure --host=m68k-elf

                                          Brian
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