Re: [PATCH] neon.m4

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:41:43PM -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>...
> I don't feet stronly about this one way or the other (I mean hell,
> it's just one little text file), but others seem to, and it doesn't
> seem like we lose anything by just using -lneon, and we gain the
> ability to be able to build when that file (for whatever reason) is
> not installed.

.la files provide further dependencies for the application. Thus, we *do*
lose functionality by avoiding them.

Instead, the patch should test for the .la. If it is present, then use it.
Otherwise, set up a -L and -l pair for linking.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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