Re: Building master on Debian systems fails at linking "check".

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Brian,

> >> I think using a “libcheck_pic aware” m4 macro is the way to go, ideally
> >> this should be provided in the check package itself, I'll try asking the
> >> Debian maintainers if there is no interest for a solution in BlueZ.
> >
> > why on earth does Debian has to do everything different than any other
> > distribution. I am getting pretty sick of that :(
> >
> > The easiest way is to just disable any kind of unit testing when the
> > check support is not found. Simple as that. I am not bothering to make
> > this work on Debian.
> 
> This is *not* a Debian issue, as it also happens on Ubuntu.

actually Ubuntu just copies from Debian. So they are both the same and
make the same mistakes.

> I believe it is more likely an X86-64 issue.  And support for libcheck 
> is checked (and is there), but for some reason fails in this instance.

So what does "pkg-config --libs check" actually tells you?

Regards

Marcel