Subject: Re: when should mk/dlopen.buildlink3.mk be used? and chat/gaim
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/15/2005 08:19:12
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Johnny Lam wrote:

>> Then I saw that patch-ad removes the -ldl from the configure script.
>
> No patch should remove -ldl from configure scripts if the configure script 
> uses the standard library-check macros.  That test should simply fail on 
> platforms that don't have libdl.  Does the CVS commit log tell you anything 
> about who added the patch and why?

I didn't see anything about it.

(Often patches are updated at same time as other files but commit message 
doesn't specifically mention each file.)

  Jeremy C. Reed

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