Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal on SGI

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
> Heck, it needs to be fixed to provide a *general* way of handling "-R",
> rather than just having a hack specific to the X libraries, in addition
> to handling OSes other than SunOS 5.x.

In fact, there's a comment to that effect in "acspecific.m4" in the
"autoconf" 2.13 source:

  # It would also be nice to do this for all -L options, not just this one.

> Unfortunately, the way we get "-R" for libraries other than the X
> libraries is from "gtk-config" - which doesn't even handle *Solaris*
> correctly; I had to hack it by hand to stick the damn "-R" flag in - I
> didn't come up with a particularly obvious way of getting the GTK+
> installation/configuration process to automatically put the right stuff
> into "gtk-config" when it builds it from "gtk-config.in".

It may be that the way to do this is to fix "glib-config"; I'm looking
at that.