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Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59-7
Severity: wishlist

AC_LINK_IFELSE and such rely on the definition of ac_link (from c.m4
for C and C++, AFAICT). For those 2 langauges, ac_link is defined as
a $CC or $CXX invocation.

This notably causes problems when one wants to link about libtool .la
files, since then the linker must be 'libtool --mode=link $CC".

I work around this by setting ac_link="libtool --mode=link $ac_link"
prior to calling AC_LINK_IFELSE, but that's obviously a gross hack.

Especially, automake makes use of LD and CXXLD in Makefiles, and I
also have to set them to "libtool --mode=link $(CXX)" and such.

It would be nice to be able to change LD and CXXLD in configure.ac,
have those values used fo the tests, and automatically propagated to Makefile's.

Does that sound reasonable, or am I missing an obvious feature here ?

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ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.1-1 a macro processing language
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