[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Now, here's a autotools question. What's the best way of allowing the user > to supply a path to a library that your package needs? I currently have > this: I don't think that you'd want to use AC_ARG_WITH here. You say that "your package needs" this external library; you seem to be clearly implying that this package isn't optional. But AC_ARG_WITH is used for things that can optionally be included in the configured package. I don't think that there is a magic way for autoconf to do what you want here. You'd sort-of have to put something like this in your configure.in: foobar_dir="/default/path/to/foobar" #.... dnl Check for foobar lib if ! test -d "$foobar_dir" echo "Error: this package needs libfoobar" fi dnl Other tests too... > Further, I would like configure the complain when it can't > find the library. I took care of the complaint too. (-: Hope this helps, --kevin -- ``...colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar theater on a Saturday night...'' - Tom Waits ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
