[RFC] [PATCH] Fix configure scripts for Debian systems

[David Smith]

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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