Re: GModule build fixes

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> I guess that means that configure.in has to be fixed for NetBSD
> to export the right G_MODULE_LDFLAGS. I think this is a
> case of the test catching a real problem.

I don't think it's reasonable to consider this a NetBSD problem. This is
an "every platform no one has tried to build glib on yet" problem. The
*only* reason it works right for Linux is because Linux is already
special-cased in configure.in. This is not scalable.

> We want:
> 
>  gcc -o myprog.c myprog.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0`
> 
> to work. Using gmodule isn't supposed to require you to use libtool.

What do you think of the idea of parsing the output of "libtool
--config" at glib configure time and using that to find
G_MODULE_LDFLAGS? libtool has a ton of arcane knowledge about what
platforms require what flags. It seems pointless to try and duplicate
that in glib.

-- Dan