On Jun 18, 2005, at 6:58 AM, imacat wrote:
But, what if we make clues there? Please correct me if I'm wrong,
but from my experience working with GNU autoconf and automake,
something
like:
test.c:
============
int
main()
{
}
============
$(CC) -lsomelib test.c
can be used to check the availability of libsomelib.(a|so|dll).
Something like:
test.c:
============
#define <someheader.h>
int
main()
{
}
============
$(CC) test.c
can be used to check the availability of someheader.h. And there
is
already an existing method to check the availability of executables.
Yeah, that might work well enough (but I don't have much experience
with Configure/autoconf myself).
Think we should add this to ExtUtils::CBuilder? That's the module that
Module::Build uses to do all its C compiling and linking. It already
has a have_compiler() method, we could add have_library($foo) and
have_header($foo) methods too.
-Ken
