[Opengrads-devel] dynamic supplibs checking

[Jennifer A. <jm...@CO...>]

Dear Experts,

I've been pecking away at the configure scripts and thinking about  
the logic in them. There's a lot of cruft in there -- support of  
"historical" stuff that is no longer relevant, and outdated platform  
dependencies. It seems to me that the default behavior should be to  
look for a directory called "supplibs" (in ./ and ../) and if not  
found then go hunting in the system for the required libraries,  
creating a dynamically linked executable. To create a more portable  
build, the configure flag "--disable-shared" will stick with what's  
in the "supplibs"  directory and use the "-L/ga_supplb_path/ 
libname.a" syntax instead of -L/path -lname" .  The "--with-PACKAGE"  
configure options will be used to guide the hunting for a specific  
library, something like --with-hdf=/opt/local (and then it will look  
for /opt/local/lib/libmfhdf.a and /opt/local/include/mfhdf.h)

Doesn't that seem more reasonable?

Jennifer

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