Here are some links to the archive that you might find interesting:
My suggestion for a LT_AC_CHECK_SHLIB:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-10/msg00222.html
Mind that there is a difference between linking a library against a
library and linking a library against an application. When linking a
library against a library you can not (portably) link a static
library against a shared library. Since libtool is able to check for
such things this was the reason that I wanted a special CHECK_SHLIB.
Links about LT_OUTPUT:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/threads.html#00372
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-08/msg00099.html
Best regards,
Sander
On 3-jul-2006, at 20:52, Tim Mooney wrote:
This seems like it should be an obvious question, but I'm not
finding any
obvious answers in either the libtool or autoconf documentation.
Is there a libtool-aware equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB? In other
words, if I
want to check for foo_amazing_func() in libfoo, and libfoo was
built with
libtool (and the libfoo.la is hopefully installed on the system),
is there
an extant macro something like LT_CHECK_LIB(foo,foo_amazing_func) that
will try find foo_amazing_func() in libfoo *and* will pull in all the
necessary dependencies for libfoo, automatically?
The specific case I'm looking at is for a package that wants to
check for
libneon. Neon (which is a libtool library) might have been linked
against
OpenSSL (which might require pthread libraries and/or krb5
libraries), and
definitely requires one of libxml2 (which might have requirements like
zlib, pthread, libm, et. al.) or expat. If I want to check for
libneon at configure time, using just AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_SEARCH_LIB
will
be extremely painful, because even with the fourth argument to
either of
those macros, I'll still have to write a battery of configure tests to
figure out which particular combination of libraries is required to
get
libneon and its dependencies. If there's a libtool-aware equivalent
macro, it would be so much easier.
Tim
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