Hi Sylvain, * Sylvain Beucler wrote on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:55:56PM CEST: > > (I'm not 100% sure this is the right list, please let me know if this > is the case :))
Good enough, I'd say. > I'd like to implement something like gettext's inclusion of 'libintl', > which can be either included in the source tarball (for users), or > reused from a system library (for distros). > > gettext's implementation looks complicated. Is there an easier way to > do the job? I'm pretty sure there are some caveats to be aware of when > specifying the library. I think so. FWIW libltdl is similar (but probably even more complicated). Anyway, for a start I'd try to use an AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS in the toplevel package (ignores non-existent subdirs), a subdir conigure for the library, and set LIBFOO, LTLIBFOO, INCFOO (or whatever naming) accordingly in a m4 macro that you ship to use. The important bit when using libtool is that you specify (and use) LTLIBFOO as sub/libfoo.la when internal. I think the gnulib module havelib can help you. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
