[Parted-commits] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to 'stable-1.8.x'

[David Cantrell]

 configure.ac   |   12 ++++++++++++
 lib/.gitignore |    7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 8c2e29fefa1ce459764b694c68f495034fff3a88
Author: David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 14 14:55:49 2007 -0400

    libreadline is a problematic library.  Autoconf adds a block to the generated configure script that checks to see if we should be passing the --as-needed flag to ld(1).  There are portability reasons this code exists (best I can figure), but it presents a problem when we scan for libreadline.
    
    libreadline specifically has unresolved symbols on at least Fedora and RHEL.  Why?  Well, the developer can choose to provide libtermcap, libncurses, or libncursesw (wide-char support) at compile time which all satisfy the curses API dependency that libreadline has.  When the parted configure script runs, it fails on readline because the --as-needed flag causes the linker to not include libncurses even though we already have that on the link line.
    
    My solution is to remove the --as-needed flag when we scan for libreadline and then later check for rl_completion_matches() in libreadline.

commit ac91d97b31643951836c8fdc071be88c177df186
Author: David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 13 23:24:17 2007 -0400

    Ignore more files.