Re: fpsetmask

[Jason Stover]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:20:38PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm compiling PSPP on a new laptop. It has no fpsetmask, and
> > configure is failing because of that:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > But another system I have used doesn't have fpsetmask and it has
> > no trouble. HAVE_FPSETMASK in undef'd in config.h.in.
> 
> Are you sure that fpsetmask is really the reason that configure
> is failing?  The only reference to fpsetmask in configure is in a
> context where it should not cause configuration to fail.
> 
> Sometimes, when looking at config.log, it is easy to believe that
> the first failure that you see is the problem, but looking beyond
> it often reveals another problem.

You were right. The problem was my botched pkg-config *.pc's, strewn
haphazardly around /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
I wasn't bothering to look at pkgconfig because the linker error about fpsetmask
seemed much easier to identify.