Problems with 21.5.b17 (+CVS-20040517)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "robert" == robert delius royar <xemacs at frinabulax.org> writes:

    robert> I have found that at least on my Mac if I configure
    robert> --with-gpm (Gen. Purpose Mouse), and the test succeeds
    robert> showing I have gpm, the later test for gmp (Big Number
    robert> Support) fails.  I assume that somewhere in configure
    robert> these two acronyms cross paths,

Just a coincidence.  Once a test succeeds, that library is added to
the link command used in configure testing.  Note that both -lgmp and
-lgpm are in that line; there's no confusion.  I'll bet anything that
libgpm lives in /opt/local/lib, right?  For some reason, that is not
getting added in the right place (namely, before -lgpm).

Try running configure the same way as before but without configuring
the numeric library.  I bet you'll run into a similar failure when
checking for another feature.  (It's possible you won't, if gmp is the
last feature that requires a link test---but then the build will fail
in the same way, unless some other test properly adds -L/opt/local/lib
to the _front_ of the link options.)

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