On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Rishi Agrawal<rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkati...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Rishi Agrawal< > rishi.b.agra...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > 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 > >> > >> You can try something like below too ... it doesn't depend on any > >> particular function. > >> > >> /tmp/test> ./configure > >> checking for gcc... gcc > >> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > >> checking whether the C compiler works... yes > >> checking whether we are cross compiling... no > >> checking for suffix of executables... > >> checking for suffix of object files... o > >> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > >> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > >> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed > >> checking for -pkg-config... no > >> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > >> checking for libxml2... yes > >> configure: creating ./config.status > >> > >> > >> /tmp/test> cat configure.ac > >> # -*- Autoconf -*- > >> # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. > >> > >> AC_PREREQ([2.63]) > >> AC_INIT(["Sample test package"], ["1.1.0"], ["mkati...@gmail.com"]) > >> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([a.c]) > >> > >> AC_PROG_CC > >> > >> AC_PATH_PROGS([PACKAGE_CONFIG], [$host_alias-pkg-config pkg-config], > >> [none]) > >> if test "x$PACKAGE_CONFIG" = "xnone"; then > >> AC_MSG_ERROR([*** pkg-config, needed to check for libxml2 existence > >> has not been found.]) > >> fi > >> > >> AC_MSG_CHECKING(for libxml2) > >> > >> if $PACKAGE_CONFIG libxml-2.0 --libs > /dev/null 2>&1; then > >> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) > >> else > >> AC_MSG_RESULT(no) > >> fi > >> > >> AC_OUTPUT > >> > >> ===================================== > >> > >> Thanks - > >> Manish > >> > >> > > >> > 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/ > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanks - > >> Manish > > > > > > > > I will try this and reply > > Hi Rishi, > > Did you get a chance to try this ? Did it help ? Not yet..........busy in other work.....will respond ASAP > > > Thanks - > Manish > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Rishi B. Agrawal > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > > > > > > -- > Thanks - > Manish > -- Regards, Rishi B. Agrawal http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal http://code.google.com/p/fscops/
