- --- a/hints/linux.sh
- +++ b/hints/linux.sh
- @@ -221,6 +221,24 @@ case "$libc" in
- ;;
- esac
-
- +# Ubuntu 11.04 (and later, presumably) doesn't keep most libraries
- +# (such as -lm) in /lib or /usr/lib. So we have to ask gcc to tell us
- +# where to look. We don't want gcc's own libraries, however, so we
- +# filter those out.
- +# This could be conditional on Unbuntu, but other distributions may
- +# follow suit, and this scheme seems to work even on rather old gcc's.
- +# This unconditionally uses gcc because even if the user is using another
- +# compiler, we still need to find the math library and friends, and I don't
- +# know how other compilers will cope with that situation.
- +# Still, as an escape hatch, allow Configure command line overrides to
- +# plibpth to bypass this check.
- +case "$plibpth" in
- +'') plibpth=`gcc -print-search-dirs | grep libraries |
- + cut -f2- -d= | tr ':' $trnl | grep -v 'gcc'`
- + plibpth="$plibpth" # Collapse all entries on one line
- + ;;
- +esac
- +
- # Are we using ELF? Thanks to Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- # for this test.
- cat >try.c <<'EOM'
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