Re: FreeBSD configure error related to liblockfile

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Configure error:
> - liblockfile package installed and `configure --without-x`
>
> checking for maillock in -lmail... no
> checking for maillock in -llockfile... no
> checking for liblockfile.so... yes
> configure: error: Shared liblockfile found but can't link against it.
> This probably means that movemail could lose mail.
> There may be a 'development' package to install containing liblockfile.
>

Could you show us the config.log corresponding to this error? And tell
us which version of Emacs you're building?

> No configure error:
> - liblockfile package not installed
> - liblockfile package installed and `configure` (no arguments)
> - liblockfile and GNU mailutils packages installed
>
> What do you recommend for the package?
>
> 1. We could just add ac_cv_prog_liblockfile=no to the configure environment.
> 2. We could add a dependency on GNU mailutils.
> 3. We could add an option to depend on GNU mailutils.  If that option is turned off, then add ac_cv_prog_liblockfile=no to the configure environment.
> 4. Another approach I am missing.

The fact that this happens only when using '--without-x' indicates to
me that there might be a bug in our configure script which we should
attempt to fix.

Robert