Re: 21.4.10 on Red Hat 8.0 - can't find shared libs

Lynn> It seems like a pretty silly mistake for configure to make, This is the price of Cygwin support. There _are_ systems that support both Windows and X interfaces. If someone wants to do the configure hacking to make this work right, that's fine with me. But my experience has been that generally trying to make configure smart just results in ever more obscure breakage. We could of course just have configure detect platform and then run configure.linux, configure.msw, etc etc, but that's sorta against the whole configure philosophy. You want to avoid tests for platforms. Some day somebody might want to access Windows features (or test Wine itself) by running XEmacs on Wine. Silly in this case, yes, but that is the philosophy that drives configure scripting. So now we have a configure script that mostly works. Lynn> I would consider this a bug -- or is there some purpose to Lynn> it? Yeah, it's a bug. It's easy to work around, and you need a Windows/Cygwin/configure expert to fix it (two out of three is not good enough most likely). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.