Request for review: glpk

[Quentin Spencer]

Ed Hill wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:02 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 12:55 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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 ;)
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>So, lets help upstream improve it.  ;-)  Will they accept patches?  
>

If you're talking about octave, definitely yes. GLPK is another 
story--one of the least responsive package developers I've come accross 
(part of the reason we still have no shared libs).

-Quentin