Request for review: glpk

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:02 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 12:55 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't work, as illustrated by the following excerpt 
> > from config.log:
> > configure:8588: checking glpk.h usability
> > configure:8600: gcc -c -I/usr/include/glpk  conftest.c >&5
> > <snip>
> > configure:8633: checking glpk.h presence
> > configure:8643: gcc -E  conftest.c
> > 
> > For some reason, the second check throws out the flags that I passed in. 
> > I have to admit I don't know much about autotools.
> > Is this normal in a configure script?
> No, conversely, configure scripts are supposed to accept several flags
> such as CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc. and are not supposed to
> override them, but ... I have seen better configure scripts than
> octave's ;)

So, lets help upstream improve it.  ;-)  Will they accept patches?  I'll
take a look and try to whip one up later this week.

Ed

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