Re: gd/config.m4 still busted

I'm working on this.. --Jani On Wed, 9 May 2001, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Hi, > > the config.m4 defines several macros like this > > AC_DEFUN(PHP_GD_JPEG,[ > .. > PHP_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(jpeg, $withval/lib) > .. > LIBS="$LIBS -L$withval/lib -ljpeg" > ]) > > I.e. it correctly adds the library using PHP-specific macros, > but then continues in the wrong way by adding some cruft to > LIBS manually. > > I would not be surprised, if this is the reason for the > problems Jani described. People are already complaining to > me about this mis-feature in 4.0.5 which causes other checks > to fail in non-obvious ways. > > Unfortunately, we cannot simply rip them out as > PHP_GD_CHECK_VERSION depends on being able to link a program > against libgd.a successfully and that only works, if gd's > auxiliary libraries are present. > > So, what I would propose is to reset the LIBS/LDFLAGS > variables after leaving the body of AC_ARG_WITH(gd ..) to the > state they had before entering it. That should leave the > current functionality intact and it prevents the > modifications to "infect" the rest of the system. > > Comments? > > - Sascha Experience IRCG > http://schumann.cx/ > http://schumann.cx/ircg > > >