Re: havelib's AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS in conditionals

[Micah Cowan]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Micah Cowan on 8/7/2007 12:07 PM:
>> Hello,
> 
>> I have recently become the maintainer for GNU Wget, which uses autoconf
>> and havelib, but currently not automake.
> 
>> The use of ./configure --with-libssl-prefix=<some path> has stopped
>> working; I did some investigating, and it appears that the following
>> code is problematic:
> 
> Your choice of mailing bug-gnulib was a bit odd, since gnulib requires
> automake.  I'm glad Ralf was able to help here, but this question probably
> could have been better directed to the main autoconf list.

Not considering that I had no idea (yet) whether it was a question of
misuse (autoconf-related issue), or a bug in AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS's
implementation. And while gnulib, as a whole, may require automake, the
module regarding which I had a question does not.

Posting to the list whose topic was the module with which I was having
trouble seemed appropriate to me. Especially since gnulib was designed
for people to grab just the code and/or documentation they need from it:
my understanding is that it is more of a collection of code for various
things, than a "library" per se. The fact that some /other/ code that is
a part of gnulib, but which wget does not use, requires automake, does
not appear particularly relevant, to me.

Of course, the _answer_ to my problem, was pretty much an autoconf
issue, and not specific to gnulib, but how was I to know that until I
had my answer? :)

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/

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