Re: Minor build nits in 7.3rc1

Harris Peter wrote:
> Hi
>
> 1)
> configure fails too easily if your libraries and include files are in a
> funny place. When you specify --prefix=/somewhere, maybe it should use "-L
> /somewhere/lib" and "-I/somewhere/include" by default when checking if
> things exist.
> Workaround: I had to add the options to LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS myself to get
> readline noticed.

Yes, I have seen that happen too. Did you use --with-includes and
--with-libs? I have seen cases where the actual compile of the software
honors those flags, but the configure tests don't. Is that what you are
seeing? I think config.log will show you the actual tests.

> 2)
> The makefile contains many rm. I usually like to alias rm="rm -i" for
> safety, so I had to answer (y/n) a lot of times. Could the makefile please
> use rm -f?

That is a little extreme. If we use -f, then you will have rm -if, and
I don't know how that is supposed to behave. Also, if there is an issue
with the rm, I think most will want to see it rather than have -f ignore
it.

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