[openib-general] Strange configure error in libibcm

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:29, Roland Dreier wrote:
> This is an odd error that seems to be some sort of autotools or
> binutils bug.  I see the same thing on my system, and what seems to
> happening is:
> 
>     checking for ib_at_route_by_ip in -libat... yes
> 
> configure tries to link a program that calls ib_at_route_by_ip, and
> succeeds because ld searches /usr/local/lib.
> 
>     checking size of long... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long), 77
> 
> it then tries to run a program to see how big a long is, but it can't
> run because the dynamic loader can't find libibat, since
> /usr/local/lib isn't in its search path.
> 
> So I'm not sure how to get a better error message, but I don't think
> it's a libibcm problem.

Just to be clear, it isn't a libibat problem either, right ?

-- Hal