[m-dev.] mmake ignoring LDFLAGS

[Michael Wybrow]

I'm been trying to build the source rotd of the Mercury compiler for fink 
on Mac OS X.  I have no problems building it if I pass 
'--without-readline' to the configure script.  If I let the configure 
script detect readline, it finds and compiles and links the readline tests 
fine with the fink readline I have in '/sw' (finks root directory).  I 
have the shell variables CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include and LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib set 
and exported during configure, make, etc.

The build fails when linking 'libmer_mdbcomp.dylib' in the browser 
directory with:
 	/usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lreadline

The reason being that by this point the variable LDFLAGS is not being 
passed as an argument to the 'gcc' command run by 'ml'.  This is the gcc 
command that gets run:

gcc -dynamiclib -single_module -undefined error -o libmer_mdbcomp.dylib 
mdbcomp.pic_o mer_mdbcomp.pic_o mdbcomp.program_representation.pic_o -lmer_std 
-lmer_rt -lgc -ldl -lreadline -ltermcap -L../boehm_gc -L../mps_gc/code 
-L../runtime -L../library -L../trace -L../browser /usr/lib/libgcc.a -lm -lc

Which succeeds if I manually add '-L/sw/lib'.

Does mmake intentionally ignore LDFLAGS or is this possibly a bug with 
configure not preserving LDFLAGS?

Could someone who is a bit more familiar with configure, mmake and ml have 
a look at this?


Thanks,
Michael
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