I've got a situation where I want to track specific libraries that are needed for building specific programs. Sometimes this is for things like openssl and sometimes it's network stuf or thread stuff, where I know which programs need it and which ones don't.
Originally I let configure put all of the libraries in the LIBS variable, but I got a lot of pushback from folks with embedded systems and similar targets where the extra libraries were taking up too much space. So I started putting specific libraries in different variables so I could control when they get linked to an executable. I do this by saving the current value of LIBS, clearing LIBS, looking for functions, saving LIBS as FOO_LIBS, and restoring the original verison of LIBS. This has been a tolerable solution, but I'm now seeing cases where it would be really helpful to tell configure that it should use LIBS and FOO_LIBS when it does function checks. I don't want to add FOO_LIBS to LIBS because it will be a PITA to then remove them later. So what I'd like to do is find a way to give AC_CHECK_FUNC and friends a list of variables to use as libraries instead of just LIBS. Any idaes how I could do this? Are there better options? -- Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member! _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
