Re: [Help-gsl] GNU build configure.ac script

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:42:40 +0200,
Rutger van Haasteren wrote:
> The former doesn't work, whereas the latter does. I know the compile will
> fail due to variables like DEPS_LIBS, but that is not the point. The point
> is that the tests themselves fail. How can this be? Any ideas? TIA. Cheers,

For the former I get,

  checking for main in -lm... yes
  checking for library containing main... none required

which would be the expected behavior -- AC_SEARCH_LIBS will always
succeed linking to main, without any library. 

 -- Macro: AC_SEARCH_LIBS (FUNCTION, SEARCH-LIBS, [ACTION-IF-FOUND],
          [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND], [OTHER-LIBRARIES])
     Search for a library defining FUNCTION if it's not already
     available.

-- 
Brian Gough
(GSL Maintainer)

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/