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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Peter's gripes
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Date: 5 Feb 90 20:16:10 GMT
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[about having build look for things on it's own rather than asking questions]

In article <1990Feb4.222953.19169@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>(No, going out to the libraries via ar is not the answer -- the libraries
>aren't even always in the same places.)

Configure seems to do a pretty good job of it.  You could probably just
steal the code out of Configure to do it too.  You'll probably have to
hack it a bit to fit what build wants but it probably wouldn't be that
difficult.

--Bill Davidson