From 1979bd2f15b21383bd47b1423916e8534bd7136a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danmc <danmc>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:43:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a --enable-rpath option which is off by default.  When
 specified this adds the correct rpath flag for the X11 libraries.

---
 configure.in | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c12b6c778..93848b427 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -287,6 +287,61 @@ AC_PATH_X
 AC_PATH_XTRA
 
 
+dnl  Check if the user wants to use the appropriate rpath commands to compile in
+dnl  the shared library path for the X libraries.  This is off by default since
+dnl  that is how it has been historically.  Using --enable-rpath will turn this on
+
+_use_rpath=no
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([if hardcoding of the X11 runtime library path is desired])
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([rpath],
+	[  --enable-rpath         Enable hardcoding the X11 runtime library path [default=disabled]],
+	[
+	if test "X$enable_rpath" = "Xno" ; then
+		AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+		_use_rpath=no
+	else
+		AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+		_use_rpath=yes
+	fi
+	],
+	[
+		AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+		_use_rpath=no
+	]
+)
+
+if test "X$_use_rpath" = "Xyes" ; then
+	# Try to figure out if we need -Rpath for finding X11 libs
+	# at runtime.  Why autoconf doesn't already do this, I don't
+	# know...
+	xlib_path=""
+	for p in $X_LDFLAGS ; do
+		case $p in
+			-L*)
+				xlib_path="$xlib_path $p"
+				;;
+		esac
+	done
+
+	_save_LIBS=$LIBS
+	LIBS="$LIBS $X_LDFLAGS"
+	rpath=""
+	for fl in "-Wl,-rpath " "-Wl,--rpath " "-rpath " "--rpath " "-Wl,-R" "-R" "-R " ; do
+		xlib_rpath=`echo $xlib_path | sed "s/-L/$fl/g"`
+		LIBS="$_save_LIBS $X_LIBS $xlib_rpath"
+		AC_MSG_CHECKING([if the compiler accepts ${fl}path for runtime libraries])
+		AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+			rpath=$fl, 
+			AC_MSG_RESULT([no]))
+		test -n "$rpath" && break
+	done
+	if test -n "$rpath"; then
+		X_LDFLAGS="$X_LDFLAGS $xlib_rpath"
+	fi
+	LIBS=$_save_LIBS
+fi
+
 dnl Checks for X libraries - if X11 wasn't found then don't make following
 dnl tests and compile without X11 support - otherwise, check if the following
 dnl libraries are present (error if they are not)