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Re: Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1

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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
May 15, 2003 14:06
Subject:
Re: Last Call For (Least) Favourite Issues For 5.8.1
Message ID:
Pine.SOL.4.53.0305151705290.29877@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Another related question:  I've been having a parallel conversation with our
> libm folks about this issue, and they tell me that Solaris 10 will have both
> /usr/lib/libm.so.1 and /usr/lib/libm.so.2.  Will Configure scan the correct
> version when two are present, i.e. /usr/lib/libm.so.2?

Yes, it should.  There's a messy sed command in that part of Configure to
sort library version numbers for just this sort of issue.

However, if we're going to skip the nm scan on Solaris anyway, then
presumably the linker will do the right thing when handed -lm.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu

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