Re: Pretest

[Chong Yidong]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> The reason from the looks is that the library search path is not
> propagated correctly.  This is what config.log contains (tiff is
> installed in /usr/local):
>
> But at linking, none of the search paths are passed, and hence the
> missing library error.

I'm guessing you're passing an LDFLAGS envvar to configure.  Seems
like LDFLAGS isn't getting passed to X11_LDFLAGS.  Try applying the
following patch, run autoconf, run configure, and compile again.  Does
compilation work now?

(Can others check that this patch makes sense?)

*** emacs/configure.in.~1.414.~ 2006-10-28 16:35:50.000000000 -0400
--- emacs/configure.in  2006-10-29 18:23:16.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 1315,1320 ****
--- 1315,1322 ----
  dnl Treat GCC specially since it just gives a non-fatal `unrecognized option'
  dnl if not built to support GNU ld.
  
+ SPECIFIED_LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS
+ AC_SUBST(SPECIFIED_LDFLAGS)
  late_LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS
  if test "$GCC" = yes; then
    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-znocombreloc"
*** emacs/src/Makefile.in.~1.331.~      2006-09-16 09:28:06.000000000 -0400
--- emacs/src/Makefile.in       2006-10-29 18:24:35.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 444,450 ****
  #ifdef HAVE_X11
  /* LD_SWITCH_X_DEFAULT comes after everything else that specifies
     options for where to find X libraries, but before those libraries.  */
! X11_LDFLAGS = LD_SWITCH_X_SITE LD_SWITCH_X_DEFAULT
  LIBX= $(LIBXMENU) $(X11_LDFLAGS) $(LIBXT) LIBTIFF LIBJPEG LIBPNG LIBGIF 
LIBXPM LIB_X11_LIB LIBX11_MACHINE LIBX11_SYSTEM
  #else /* not HAVE_X11 */
  LIBX= $(LIBXMENU) LD_SWITCH_X_SITE -lX10 LIBX10_MACHINE LIBX10_SYSTEM
--- 444,450 ----
  #ifdef HAVE_X11
  /* LD_SWITCH_X_DEFAULT comes after everything else that specifies
     options for where to find X libraries, but before those libraries.  */
! X11_LDFLAGS = @SPECIFIED_LDFLAGS@ LD_SWITCH_X_SITE LD_SWITCH_X_DEFAULT
  LIBX= $(LIBXMENU) $(X11_LDFLAGS) $(LIBXT) LIBTIFF LIBJPEG LIBPNG LIBGIF 
LIBXPM LIB_X11_LIB LIBX11_MACHINE LIBX11_SYSTEM
  #else /* not HAVE_X11 */
  LIBX= $(LIBXMENU) LD_SWITCH_X_SITE -lX10 LIBX10_MACHINE LIBX10_SYSTEM