Re: suggestions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Braden McDaniel wrote:
 >>> But you really should just use pkg-config instead.
> > I actually use pkg-config for my library; but boost libraries don't come
> > with a pkg-config .pc file unfortunately :-(
> >
> > or did you mean something else?
>
> As long as Boost isn't providing pkg-config metadata, you can simply 
> refer directly to the Boost libraries you need in -l flags in your .pc 
> file's Libs (or Libs.private).

I think I solved the problem by putting boost library and header 
commands into Cflags and Libs.

the problem with this approach is that it does not check for boost 
libraries.  However, these libraries must be present anyway if one built 
my library.  The problem can still be there if one installed a binary 
package of the library in a system without dependence checking, but I 
think this is rare, isn't it?

One thing that still troubles me is that if I put library flags into 
Libs.private, these will show up only if pkg-config is invoked with 
--static (when building static libraries); however, this flag is not 
automatically detected if configure is invoked with --disable-share or 
-all-static in LDFLAGS, am I right?

cheers
        Lorenzo

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