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Re: Where to find libintl?


Hi!

Friday, 25 August, 2000 Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com wrote:

>>CF> I've checked in a temporary fix. I intended to work on this more
>>today.
>>
>>i've  always  wanted to familiarize myself with autoconf, and it seems
>>to be good occasion to start with :) so i'll try to look at it too.

CF> I've chosen to tackle this as a build time problem rather than a configure
CF> time problem.  I'd rather have this "just work" when libintl and libbfd are
CF> available.

CF> I've tried to make all of the cygwin makefiles do the right thing when they
CF> require a library but I don't want to complicate them further by automatically
CF> building libbfd.a and libintl.a.

CF> So, I added a warning in the Makefile.in when dumper's dependencies are
CF> not available.  Otherwise, it just builds dumper.exe.

but  your  changes  won't  detect bfd and others that are installed in
/usr/include and /usr/lib

maybe configure should try to check for system-installed bfd, intl and
include/elf/  and  only  if  they're not found makefile will check for
them in current build tree?

Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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