On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:09:13PM +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
> On Jul26, 2011, at 01:57 , Noah Misch wrote:
> > We could rearrange things so the xml2-config -L
> > flags (or lack thereof) take priority over a --with-libraries directory for
> > the purpose of finding libxml2.
>
> Hm, how would we do that just for the purpose of finding libxml? Do autotools
> provide a way to specify per-library -L flags?
Autoconf (built-in macros, that is) and Automake do not get involved in that. I
vaguely recall Libtool having support for it, but PostgreSQL does not use
Automake or Libtool. I also spoke too loosely: -L is never per-library, but you
can emulate that by completing the search externally and passing a full path to
the linker.
Honestly, the benefit is probably too light to justify going to this trouble.
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