> On 05/13/2014 01:19 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > > AC_CHECK_CURSES calls AC_CHECK_CURSES_COMPILE, which is the step that > > fails. I've included it below. The key step seems to be that it calls > > AC_LINK_IFELSE, with the curses libs (-lncursesw) appended to LDFLAGS. > > That's a bug in AC_CHECK_CURSES_COMPILE, and should be reported to > whoever wrote that macro. The autoconf manual says that LDFLAGS is for > -L options, while LIBS is for -l options.
OK. I think the author of pinfo is long gone, but I'll submit a patch upstream in case someone is interested. > > > > dnl > > dnl check if the curses header we found, works > > dnl > > AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_CURSES_COMPILE], [ > > > > dnl save CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and set new ones > > CFLAGS_OLD=$CFLAGS > > CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $curses_includes" > > LDFLAGS_OLD=$LDFLAGS > > LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $curses_libs" > > and this is a blatant case of using the wrong env-var for library > probing. s/LDFLAGS/LIBS/ on these lines, before running autoreconf, and > that should fix it without you manually having to pass LIBS= at the > configure command line. Sounds good. Thanks again. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
