On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Rishi Agrawal<rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Rishi > >> Agrawal<rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rishi Agrawal > >> > <rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mulyadi Santosa > >> >> <mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> On 7/17/09, Rishi Agrawal <rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> > Is autoconfigure the only way to find this out.?? > >> >>> > > >> >>> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Pei Lin <telent...@gmail.com> > >> >>> > wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> Please don't do top posting... > >> >>> > >> >>> Although it's OOT, I can help a bit. IMO, you can directly check > >> >>> /usr/lib or parse /etc/ld.so.conf and so on to find the related DSO > >> >>> and header files. However, doing that will require more time and > >> >>> probably not portable across system, in fact it's kinda reinventing > >> >>> the wheel. > >> >>> > >> >>> So, I personally suggest to adopt autoconfigure. > >> >>> > >> >>> -- > >> >>> regards, > >> >>> > >> >>> Mulyadi Santosa > >> >>> Freelance Linux trainer > >> >>> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> I will have a detailed look at the autoconfigure utility and see. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for all the help. > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Regards, > >> >> Rishi B. Agrawal > >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > >> >> http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > >> > > >> > > >> > I have used it and it is working very good. > >> > > >> > I wanted to know that > >> > > >> > How to check the presence of libxml2 library using autoconfigure ? > >> > >> First link in google. > >> > >> > >> > http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3.0/doc/tutorial_autoconf.html > >> > >> Thanks - > >> Manish > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Regards, > >> > Rishi B. Agrawal > >> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > >> > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanks - > >> Manish > > > > Actually I tried using that information earlier but somehow it did not > work. > > Can you please tell us a little more why it didn't work ? Any errors > or anything else ?? > > > > > Currently I am using a macro which checks wether a function is present in > > the mentioned library. > > I didn't understand this ? are you using something like nm ?? > > > > > like printf can be checked in libc > > > > I used a function "xmlParsefile" and "libxml2" library and this works > fine. > > The logic behind this is that when the function is present in the library > > then the library is also present on the system (is it correct ??) > > Should be... but by any chance are you relying the library to be > present in a particular path ?? If that's the case it is not going to > work anywhere ? > > Thanks - > Manish > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Rishi B. Agrawal > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > > > > > > -- > Thanks - > Manish > I am using this particular line: AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlParseFile,,AC_MSG_ERROR(oops! no function xmlParseFile function in xml?!?),) in my configure.in for autoconf The use of macro is AC_CHECK_LIB : Checks whether a function exists in the given library (library names without the leading lib, e.g., for libxml, use just xml here) It seems that it is not path dependant. -- Regards, Rishi B. Agrawal http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal http://code.google.com/p/fscops/
