On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> There's a failure mode where the compilation test for
> popt fails because popt is mandatory, yet the test failed
> because of an incompletely specified neon -> gnutls linkage.
>
> Does it make sense to test for mandatory (and mostly
> standalone) libraries like libpopt earlier in configure.ac?
>
> Here's what I would do (but I'll leave the AutoFu to Ralf) below.
>
> There are perhaps a few other reorganizations, like keyutils, that
> perhaps should be done earlier as well.

The reordering for POPT should be fine. I see no side-effects.
Just commit it, please. But I do not understand why this fixes any
NEON->GNUTLS issues. Neither NEON nor GNUTLS use POPT AFAIK...

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