[parted-devel] autoconf

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> While working on parted-1.8.3, I'm hitting a problem with the configure
> script.  After bootstrapping the tree, a plain './configure' run fails
> to find libreadline.  I tracked down the problem to an incorrect linker
> flag used in the test:
>
> 	-Wl,--as-needed
>
> That's added to LDFLAGS early in the configure script run.  Here's the
> test line that is printed to the terminal:
>
> 	checking for flag to ignore unused libraries... -Wl,--as-needed
>
> How do we disable this test?  I know very little about autoconf and
> automake and don't know where to look.  Remove that from the LDFLAGS
> lets it compile correctly, but whatever the correct course of action is
> for autoconf/automake is what I want to do.

On Debian, we're supporting the --as-needed usage since it reduces the
dependency chain a lot.

I think that it might be optional.

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