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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp (P. E. Jareth Hein)
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: build failure for b6
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "P" == P E Jareth Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp> writes:

P> Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
>> How is the contents of $motif_libs supposed to make it from
>> configure.in into src/Makefile?  The value seems to be discarded.

P> That's a very good question. How does the motif lib settings get
P> passed in any event? I can't find it. I will admit to being a
P> configure idiot, and all the edits I have done I just copied other
P> items or did them in in a way that sh wouldn't barf on and hoped...

Don't bother trying to figure it out - it will be completely different
in 20.3.  The basic problem is that cc arguments in configure and
src/Makefile are manipulated separately - a basic design error leading
to many bugs resulting from them not being maintained in sync.

Martin

