At 8:26 PM -0500 12/3/01, Tom Lane wrote:
>"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> writes:
>> configure: failed program was:
>> #line 6802 "configure"
>> #include "confdefs.h"
>> int main() { return 0; }
>
>> I can put those 3 lines in a file and use those gcc options and it
>> compiles just fine thank you.
>
>But does it *execute*? And return zero status?
>
>The usual cause of this sort of problem is messed-up shared library
>linkage (eg, LD_LIBRARY_PATH different from linker's search path),
>which doesn't show up till you try to execute the program.
>That's what the test is there to catch.
Ah! No it doesn't. It can't find /usr/local/lib/libz.so. Let's see
there is a configure option for that isn't there? Setting
LD_RUN_PATH or something. . .
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