Re: configuration failed.

Stephen> Unfortunately, it's possible that even if gcc is available to use as Stephen> the linker, the linker may get called directly. So using -Wl, or Stephen> -Xlinker is risky too. :-( A look through the configuration data makes me think that at worst this would only be a problem for Decstations and IRIX 5.1 boxes (and then only if GNU ld is in the path) because everything else uses some variation of $(CC) as the linker. The solution seems to be to move the test for nocombreloc in configure.in to before the definition of XE_PROTECT_LINKER_FLAGS and then use that macro to properly quote the -z argument (with -Xlinker) if gcc is being used. This macro is used to protect other linker arguments, so I don't see why this one should be any different. This works for me here and a patch is forthcoming. Malcolm