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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/KNOWN_BUGS | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS index 923197544..7bb1496eb 100644 --- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS +++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS @@ -365,16 +365,16 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written! 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. + when the script 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 + installation 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 + A possibly better way to do these checks would be to 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 + separate variable that only after all library checks have been performed gets appended to LDFLAGS. |