[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH 2/3] configure: iconv: Remove hack that added -L/usr/lib

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi Josh!

On 2015-11-18 03:30 -0500, Josh wrote:
> On 11/14/2015 16:20, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> >Seems not really a good idea to do such modifications to
> >the selection of the libraries that will be linked.
> >
> >Also adding -L/usr/lib might invalidate previous results
> >of tests because now a different lib will finally be linked
> >in the end.
> >
> >I got caught by this hack when compiling with a mingw compiler
> >and adding /usr/lib linker search path prioritized msys/cygwin
> >versions of the libs.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net>
>
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> 
> Had this same issue in MSYS2 only recently, caused by a recent MSYS2 update
> that installed some MSYS2 dev files such as 'libm.a'. configure tests tried
> (but failed) to use MSYS2's libm causing a lot of things to be disabled.
> Along with this modification I went a little further to remove msys2 dev
> files.
> 
> I meant to bring it up, eventually.

  Are you supporting this change? Or you want to submit a
different patch?

  What about the other (latest versions of) patches I posted
in this thread? Could you test (IIRC you are building mplayer
regularly)? Any opinion?

  Alexander