Re: Tk lib build doesn't look in the Tcl build directory

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:16:49AM -0700, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> > So now instead of MAKE_LIB reading "-L{prefix}/lib -lstubname" it reads
> > "{build}/stubname.a" explicitly.  And this works.
> 
> Hmmm. Odd. Mine builds just fine without any of this. Alas, as Mo and you
> indicate, it seems that this is necessary. At the very least, it seems
> that it is correct to use the build spec in our tree.

Ah, cool.  I just now went to the archives and read Mo's message.

(I didn't know that the shared library is a relatively recent thing.
It explains some of the other hacks I have in my local tree, e.g., don't
run ranlib on a .so.)

Phil

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