From 105fd64d1c94f4bd1e0fb0ba13f4a2a5631a4c72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:02:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ doc/autoconf.texi | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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}. -- 2.47.2