[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33018] ./configure considered broken

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #33018 (project octave):

I also asked for the libtool script for your Octave build and the libtool
script for you R build so I can compare them.

Those files are generated by the build process and are system dependent, so
looking at the scripts that are generated for my system won't help me.  But
seeing the ones generated for your system may give me a clue about what is
causing the trouble.

Looking at the generated Makefile, I see


FLIBS =  -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib -L/app/lib -L/usr/lib -lm
-R/opt/solstudio12.2/lib -lfai -lfui -lfsu -lsunquad -lsunmath -lmtsk


What does the R configure script determine for FLIBS on your system?

Also, although the configure script for R does appear to generate a libtool
script, I don't see where it is ever actually used in the build process for R
itself.  See the comments and following code for "DLL stuff" in the R
configure.ac file.  That is the kind of cruft I hope to avoid in Octave by
using libtool.  If libtool has problems on some systems, then we should fix
libtool, not introduce system-specific magic into Octave's configure scripts. 
My reasoning for this is that it makes more sense for us to improve libtool to
help all projects which use it rather than just "fixing" Octave, and it is not
likely that we will do a much better job of getting all these details right
for many systems than do the libtool developers.

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