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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-09-26 11:44:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-09-26 11:44:00 +0200 |
| commit | bd742adb6f13dc668ffadb2e97a40776a86dc124 (patch) | |
| tree | ebb13c5d4f793bf1329ba2c80b59ae6ac8fc77a0 /docs/KNOWN_BUGS | |
| parent | 1e7b79731b6cb2db56a9ee9ab7ac9f4818affeda (diff) | |
KNOWN_BUGS: 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory
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diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS index dadae3f54..923197544 100644 --- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS +++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! 5.5 can't handle Unicode arguments in Windows 5.6 cmake support gaps 5.7 Visual Studio project gaps + 5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory 6. Authentication 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode @@ -359,6 +360,24 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! - support for other development IDEs - add PATH environment variables for third-party DLLs +5.8 configure finding libs in wrong directory + + When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those + directories to the LDFLAGS variable and then tries linking to see if it + works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the LDFLAGS variable + when the scripts continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check + for more libraries. + + This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another + installtion in a directory that was previously added to LDFLAGS by another + library check! + + A possibly better way to do these checks would be keep the pristine LDFLAGS + even after successful checks and instead add those verified paths to a + separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed get + appended to LDFLAGS. + + 6. Authentication 6.1 NTLM authentication and unicode |