Re: havelib's AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS in conditionals

[Eric Blake]

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According to Micah Cowan on 8/7/2007 6:50 PM:
>>> 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:
> 
> 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.

I'm not sure how that works.  Yes, my understanding is that libssl is a
gnulib client, but then it seems like you should have been asking on the
libssl list.  I don't see wget listed in gnulib/users.txt; do we need to
add an entry?  However, I am positive that gnulib-tool won't work without
automake's Makefile.am, and very few packages are able to use gnulib
without gnulib-tool in the current scheme of things.

> 
> 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.

Apologies if my first email sounded harsh.  On re-reading what I wrote, I
think my tone came across more negatively than I intended.  It was not so
much a chide of your decision to post here (after all, many of us on this
list subscribe to multiple lists, and happily do our best to answer a
question regardless of where it is posted, under the philosophy that open
source replies open answers); as it was a note that for archival purposes,
someone else having a similar autoconf problem will not think to search
this list.

> 
> 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? :)

But to bring things back to gnulib, let us know if you are interested in
moving wget over to automake and gnulib, and if you need any help in that
regards.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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