[Xastir] "Fix" for Cygwin compile problem

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon Nov 15 13:31:31 EST 2004


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 russo at bogodyn.org wrote:

> I just found an annoying mistake on my part in acinclude.m4.
>
> If db.h exists then configure will go on to look for a library containing
> db_create.  When I was trying to clean up the configure test this weekend
> I neglected to remove a comment character from an important line that
> reset LIBS to whatever it was before the probe.  Meaning that -ldb was
> always in LIBS after the probe, even if there WAS no -ldb or if -ldb failed
> to contain db_create.

Beautiful...  Appears to do the right thing whether DB is installed
or not.  Library appears/disappears from my link line as expected.
Thanks for doing that!

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