On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Allan Caffee wrote:
AC_CHECK_LIB (AFAIK) is not intended to handle static libraries. The
reason for this is that compilers handle static libraries quite
differently than shared object libraries. Compilers treat static
libraries as a single big object file to be included along with all the
others. For example to compile the test program you would use something
like:
g++-mp-4.3 -o conftest -g -O2 -I/Users/aaragon/Lib/include
/Users/aaragon/Lib/lib/cpputils.a conftest.cpp
you can _make_ a compiler do that, but it's not the usual way static
libraries are used.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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