From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:02:43 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Fix description of AC_CHECK_LIB regarding other deplibs. X-Git-Tag: v2.65~54 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=105fd64d1c94f4bd1e0fb0ba13f4a2a5631a4c72;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git Fix description of AC_CHECK_LIB regarding other deplibs. * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Library linking may not fail even without missing additional libs. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9173cb3b..082c8034 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-09-13 Ralf Wildenhues + + Fix description of AC_CHECK_LIB regarding other deplibs. + * doc/autoconf.texi (Libraries): Library linking may not fail + even without missing additional libs. + 2009-09-12 Eric Blake Track recent copyright assignments. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 47645597..72ebde0e 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -4317,9 +4317,9 @@ detection of libraries. If linking with @var{library} results in unresolved symbols that would be resolved by linking with additional libraries, give those libraries as the @var{other-libraries} argument, separated by spaces: -e.g., @option{-lXt -lX11}. Otherwise, this macro fails to detect -that @var{library} is present, because linking the test program -always fails with unresolved symbols. The @var{other-libraries} argument +e.g., @option{-lXt -lX11}. Otherwise, this macro may fail to detect +that @var{library} is present, because linking the test program can +fail with unresolved symbols. The @var{other-libraries} argument should be limited to cases where it is desirable to test for one library in the presence of another that is not already in @code{LIBS}.