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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2011-06-15 16:24:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2012-03-20 21:17:48 -0400 |
| commit | ea7b28194ea62e840460d735b7faec611aa45abc (patch) | |
| tree | 2cafd105506865062194b46e6fa50590002e0738 | |
| parent | aa23a9e0af2a399fd4793613aaf2786800053d28 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ea7b28194ea62e840460d735b7faec611aa45abc.tar.gz | |
Prefer the system gcc when searching for libraries such as -lm
40f026236b9959b7 added code to the Linux hints file to use gcc to locate
libraries such as -lm. However, if the user has their own gcc earlier in $PATH
than the system gcc, we don't want its libraries. So try to prefer the system
gcc.
| -rw-r--r-- | hints/linux.sh | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hints/linux.sh b/hints/linux.sh index 8a3837376a..d0ac9fa9ff 100644 --- a/hints/linux.sh +++ b/hints/linux.sh @@ -163,10 +163,18 @@ esac # 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. +# Morever, if the user has their own gcc earlier in $PATH than the system gcc, +# we don't want its libraries. So we try to prefer the system gcc # Still, as an escape hatch, allow Configure command line overrides to # plibpth to bypass this check. +if [ -x /usr/bin/gcc ] ; then + gcc=/usr/bin/gcc +else + gcc=gcc +fi + case "$plibpth" in -'') plibpth=`gcc -print-search-dirs | grep libraries | +'') plibpth=`$gcc -print-search-dirs | grep libraries | cut -f2- -d= | tr ':' $trnl | grep -v 'gcc' | sed -e 's:/$::'` set X $plibpth # Collapse all entries on one line shift |