Re: link X11 automatically

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:07:05 -0600, Frank Swarbrick <fswarbrick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
   wrote:
> Ben Artin wrote:
>> In article <6com4eF3fleqpU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  Frank Swarbrick <fswarbrick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lX11
>>>
>>> LFLAGS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib
>>>
>>> So my question is, is there a way to have /usr/X11R6/lib added to the 
>>> standard ld lib search chain?  
>> 
>> The standard way to solve this problem on UNIX-based systems (of which
Mac OS X 
>> is one) is to use autoconf. See 
>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html>.
IMO it's kinda
painful.
>
> Yoikes!
>:-)
>
> I will look at it.

Be warned, it's not called autohell for nothing. In particular, libtool,
IMO, is spectacularly bloated and grotesque piece of software. To top it
all, autohell works very badly with compilers other than GCC. And I
wouldn't count on it being that well tested on OSes other than Linux
either.

A bientot
Paul 
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