Re: [PATCH] Declare `GC_dump' ourselves if <gc/gc.h> doesn't.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> () address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> () Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:17:06 +0100
>
>    So how did ‘configure’ find your libgc?
>
> I've modified configure.ac (see "Don't clobber..." patch) to look like:
>
> | dnl See note for PKG_CHECK_MODULES in aclocal.m4.
> | PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
> | if test "$BDW_GC_CFLAGS" || test "$BDW_GC_LIBS" ; then :
> |   dnl We don't need to declare those env vars precious;
> |   dnl PKG_CHECK_MODULES does that.
> | else
> |   PKG_CHECK_MODULES([BDW_GC], [bdw-gc])
> | fi

This patch shouldn’t be necessary since it duplicates what
‘PKG_CHECK_MODULES’ does.

> Then, i call configure like so:
>
> $ .../configure -C \
>       --with-threads \
>       --prefix /tmp/a/b/z \
>       BDW_GC_LIBS='-lgc' \

... without reading ‘README’, so you basically shoot yourself in the
foot and there’s not much we can do.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.