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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix configure scripts for Debian systems
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:12:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix configure scripts for Debian systems
- References: <20080612220747.GA8647@jistone-expr.sc.intel.com>
Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> I found that on Debian systems (or at least Ubuntu Hardy), libdw is
> shipped only as a static library. This causes problems with our current
> configure script, because there's apparently a circular link dependency
> between libdw and libebl.
>
> I added --enable-staticdw to configure, so it can try the link test in a
> different way. I'm no autoconf expert though, so I'd like others to
> check this before I commit. Or, if anyone knows how to do this without
> the explicit option, that would be even better.
By looking at your patch it seems like the '--with-elfutils' option and
your new '--enable-staticdw' option couldn't be specified at the same
time. (Note that I'm not sure they *should* coexist.)
Could there be a situation where a user would want to specify both?
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