[m-dev.] mmake ignoring LDFLAGS

[Ian MacLarty]

Does it work if you set EXTRA_LDFLAGS instead of just LDFLAGS?

Ian.

On 27 Oct 2004, at 14:15, Michael Wybrow wrote:

>
> 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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