Re: Documentation of lib$package.a?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 30 January 2013 17:10, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

Are you using the bootstrap script from gnulib (which I didn't check)

Yes.

 

Similarly there is no code in bootstrap rewrite to override the default setting of --lib, save setting gnulib_name=lib$package in bootstrap.conf. Bootstrap rewrite is extremely configurable, so maybe you are overwriting setting gnulib_name somehow from bootstrap.conf?

Nope, it's the default, commit a1c6bc99 by Jim Meyering back in 2007:

gnulib_name=lib$package

(in build_aux/bootstrap).

Quickly testing latest gnulib-tool, it already shows a reminder to set _LDADD  or _LDFLAGS appropriately. It seems your environment is not working properly.

It does tell me to set those variables for example for LIBINTL, and for other variables that gnulib modules may set, like LIB_PTY, but it doesn't mention the gnulib library, libfoo.a (where $PACKAGE=foo).