Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 22414 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 33406 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 33354 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jan 2007 10:00:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 33333 invoked by uid 99); 8 Jan 2007 10:00:56 -0000 Received: from herse.apache.org (HELO herse.apache.org) (140.211.11.133) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:00:56 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of jorton@redhat.com designates 66.187.233.31 as permitted sender) Received: from [66.187.233.31] (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:00:47 -0800 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l08A0QI2021776; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:00:26 -0500 Received: from radish.cambridge.redhat.com (radish.cambridge.redhat.com [172.16.18.90]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l08A0Pbr028446; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:00:25 -0500 Received: from radish.cambridge.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by radish.cambridge.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l08A0Ot3006157; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:24 GMT Received: (from jorton@localhost) by radish.cambridge.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l08A0NbF006156; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:23 GMT Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:00:23 +0000 From: Joe Orton To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." Cc: dev@httpd.apache.org, dev@apr.apache.org Subject: Re: Customize lib path list (lib64 et al)? Message-ID: <20070108100023.GA4408@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." , dev@httpd.apache.org, dev@apr.apache.org References: <45A18BC2.2060503@rowe-clan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45A18BC2.2060503@rowe-clan.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:09:38PM -0600, William Rowe wrote: > There is a very slick feature in perl, burried quite deeply, that > might be useful for our users of ./configure (and apr's as well.) > > loclibpth/locincpth define the system search order They don't, though. The *toolchain* defines the header/library search paths and there is no portable way to extract those paths from the toolchain. configure code which requires knowledge of the search paths is hence inevitably broken and non-portable, and usually fails to obey CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS to boot. joe