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-- how to check for -lXext in Grape-test?
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-- provide a wrapper for ACX_MPI called DUNE_PATH_MPI (should also fix
-  the aclocal-1.4-problem)
-
-- do we perhaps need -ldl for Grape? libltdl instead? What about -Wl,-rpath?
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