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Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?
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Albert Chin |
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Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB? |
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Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:15:57 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:52:36PM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> Is there a libtool-aware equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB? In other
> words, if I want to check for foo_amazing_func() in libfoo, and
> libfoo was built with libtool (and the libfoo.la is hopefully
> installed on the system), is there an extant macro something like
> LT_CHECK_LIB(foo,foo_amazing_func) that will try find
> foo_amazing_func() in libfoo *and* will pull in all the necessary
> dependencies for libfoo, automatically?
>
> The specific case I'm looking at is for a package that wants to
> check for libneon. Neon (which is a libtool library) might have
> been linked against OpenSSL (which might require pthread libraries
> and/or krb5 libraries), and definitely requires one of libxml2
> (which might have requirements like zlib, pthread, libm, et. al.) or
> expat. If I want to check for libneon at configure time, using just
> AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_SEARCH_LIB will be extremely painful, because
> even with the fourth argument to either of those macros, I'll still
> have to write a battery of configure tests to figure out which
> particular combination of libraries is required to get libneon and
> its dependencies. If there's a libtool-aware equivalent macro, it
> would be so much easier.
Is libneon a static library? If not, and libneon has the 3rd-party
libraries as dependencies, why shouldn't linking with just -lneon
work?
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, (continued)
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Tim Mooney, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Tim Mooney, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Tim Mooney, 2006/07/03
- Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/07/03
Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Tim Mooney, 2006/07/03
Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?,
Albert Chin <=
Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Tim Mooney, 2006/07/03
Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?, Sander Niemeijer, 2006/07/04