[Box Backup-dev] Missing libs when building on Solaris

[Martin Ebourne]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:00 +0100, Stefan Norlin wrote:
>
> > 2. This directive adds libraries if they are present, not if they are 
> > necessary. Other platforms which have the libraries but don't need to link 
> > them (the functions are defined in libc say) will end up carrying 
> > unnecessary library dependencies.
> 
> Are you sure about this for AC_SEARCH_LIBS?
> 
> In the configure generated it seems it tries to link without any extra libs
> first and only if that fails it searches for the function in the specified 
> libs
> and then tries to link with those. From my (sometimes limited) understanding
> it would seem it performs exactly the kind of testing wanted.

You're right. I should have remembered that AC_SEARCH_LIBS is different
to AC_CHECK_LIB in that respect. Thinking about it we do exactly the
same for librt and use AC_SEARCH_LIBS for just that reason.

I'll commit the change you suggested as soon as I get chance. Thanks for
the help!

Cheers,

Martin.