Peculiar configure behavior

[Randy Chung]

edscott wrote:
> 
> Actually, that would be only two binaries, xfcalendar and xffm, since
> all the others are only hardlinks to xffm.
> 

That makes things easier, since that's fewer packages to have to worry 
about :)  Huzzah!

> 
> The problem with linking libxfce4util appeared when xfce4-modules was
> moved to libxfcegui4. Before that, xffm would link correctly with the
> alternate libxfce4util. But now, when libxfcegui4 compiles, it checks
> and finds the alternate libxfce4util, but when it links it finds the old
> libxfce4util. I'm quite confused with this and don't know what causes
> it. I just overwrote the old libxfce4util with the new and moved on.
> Maybe someone else on the list know?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Edscott
> 

My temporary solution has simply been to hand edit the auto-gen'ed 
Makefiles and change the runtime linker variable to use the right path. 
  I'm inclined to believe that it's just a misconfiguration in 
configure, libtool, Makefile.{in,am}, or something along those lines.

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Randy