How to force -liberty?

[Kilian A. Foth]

I'm trying to compile a largish autoconf'ed project (KDE) on an
outlandish platform (Solaris) and working around many Linuxisms in the
sources. The latest one has me stumped: files use vasprintf() under the
assumption that this would be provided by the standard libraries, but
on Solaris it isn't. That would be no big problem; I know that
linking to libiberty fixes that, but I can't for the life of me figure
out where to put the `-liberty' to that the build process picks it up.

The usual solutions of adding it to CXXFLAGS, to the Makefile etc.
don't work. I even ran amok and hacked the local libtool to include it
unconditionally -- no success. How do I tell the autoconf system "Yes,
I do need libiberty unconditionally!' ?


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