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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] configure script doesn't use $LDFLAGS in probing
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The configure script doesn't include $LDFLAGS (or the argument
passed to --extra-ldflags=) in the probes it makes for libraries.
Thus, if extra arguments are needed to link properly, then checks
for, e.g., libSDL will fail even though they might succeed later
when the real link step runs.

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