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Re: how to link with installed libltdl?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: how to link with installed libltdl? |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:41:47 +0200 |
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Hi Andreas,
* Andreas Jellinghaus wrote on Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:28:24PM CEST:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 16:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >
> > I may be missing something, but all the libltdl-related macros I see
> > are for the case of when libltdl is bundled with the package. I don't
> > see one for simply testing for an already installed libltdl.
>
> thanks bob, that is exactly the problem I'm facing.
>
> now I wonder: if the libtool *.la files contain all information about
> the dependencies etc, then shouldn't there be some macro that searches
> for that *.la files, gets the dependencies from it, does the compile
> and link test and sets up CFLAGS and LIBS to include whatever is necessary?
Dependent libraries it has, CFLAGS should not be necessary. Everything
else would be a bug in ltdl.
> is there something that works like AC_CHECK_LIB, except that AC_CHECK_LIB
> seems to have no clue about *.la files, so is there some alternative that
> does?
Yes, there are good macros that do this. Check out lib-link.m4 and
companions from gettext (alternatively they are conveniently available
as module in gnulib), written by Bruno Haible.
Cheers,
Ralf
Re: how to link with installed libltdl?, Andreas Jellinghaus, 2005/09/01