[Ecls-list] ecl is linking unnecessarily to libintl.so (at least on OpenSolaris)

Dr. David Kirkby david.kirkby at onetel.net
Sun Sep 19 01:30:05 UTC 2010


On 09/18/10 11:36 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> What should I check for? What should I need on each version of Solaris that
> exists out there? There is no way to treat that platform in a portable way
> if that is waht you mean. It is not portable at all what the solaris people
> opted for (having a separate library for sockets and also other libraries I
> do not even know what for), and it is also not portable their changes among
> OS releases. Autoconf does not help here: one would have to hardcode the
> knowledge of which libraries are needed and which are not.

One of the points about autoconf is you can make a test program and compile 
that. You should not need to hard-code information about a specific platform, 
but test on that platform.

Dave




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