From 7a50bf00a7ce66bab207b9baa6f2b901d15661cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bring over patch 21561.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/branches/releases/Branch-6-3@21562 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/configure          |  3 +++
 deal.II/configure.in       |  3 +++
 deal.II/doc/news/changes.h | 10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/configure b/deal.II/configure
index 6c287fd267..695fbcfccc 100755
--- a/deal.II/configure
+++ b/deal.II/configure
@@ -12027,14 +12027,17 @@ case "$target" in
    *-aix4* | alpha*-linux* | alpha*-osf45* | hppa64-unknown-linux-gnu )
 	   { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: Shared libraries not supported on $target. Using static libs instead" >&5
 $as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: Shared libraries not supported on $target. Using static libs instead" >&2;}
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
 	   enableshared=no
 	   ;;
    *cygwin )
            shared_lib_suffix=".dll"
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
            cygwin_shared_lib="yes"
            ;;
    *-apple-darwin* )
            shared_lib_suffix=".dylib"
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
            darwin_shared_lib="yes"
            ;;
    * )
diff --git a/deal.II/configure.in b/deal.II/configure.in
index 9dcbfa9f54..7640fa3166 100644
--- a/deal.II/configure.in
+++ b/deal.II/configure.in
@@ -275,14 +275,17 @@ dnl on Mac OS X it is .dylib.
 case "$target" in
    *-aix4* | alpha*-linux* | alpha*-osf[45]* | hppa64-unknown-linux-gnu )
 	   AC_MSG_WARN(Shared libraries not supported on $target. Using static libs instead)
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
 	   enableshared=no
 	   ;;
    *cygwin )
            shared_lib_suffix=".dll"
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
            cygwin_shared_lib="yes"
            ;;
    *-apple-darwin* )
            shared_lib_suffix=".dylib"
+           static_lib_suffix=".a"
            darwin_shared_lib="yes"
            ;;
    * )
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index 67c82ec151..9dcddefa92 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 <h3>General</h3>
 
 <ol>
-  <li>None so far.
+  <li>
+  <p>Fixed: On all non-linux platforms, if static libraries were selected
+  and <code>./configure</code> was instructed to use Trilinos (which also
+  was compiled with static libraries), a failure would occur. This should
+  now be fixed.
+  <br>
+  (WB 2010/07/23)
+  </p>
 </ol>
 
 
@@ -59,6 +66,7 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 </ol>
 
 
+
 <a name="deal.II"></a>
 <h3>deal.II</h3>
 
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