On 18 October 2011 18:14, Alessandro Candini <cand...@meeo.it> wrote: > I see. > > But gdal have a nice executable called gdal-config, similar to pkg-config: > user@host ~ $ gdal-config --cflags > -I/usr/include/gdal > user@host ~ $ gdal-config --libs > -L/usr/lib -lgdal1.7.0 > > Is there a way to use it like I do with PKG_CHECK_MODULES? > > In this way I could avoid the user to insert anything on configure command > line, because gdal-config will give the right path on every system...
In the end configure is just an shell script, so yes, you can run arbitrary programs and use their output. What I dislike in many of the different xxx-config tools is that they are not really suitable for cross-compiling. Is gdal-config script usable in any system that has standard compliant /bin/sh or binary program executable only in target system? Anway, if you want to proceed with gdal-config, you should probably write new macro (unless one already exist, possibly provided by gdal itself!) that handles the check details. You should not just blindly call gdal-config, but to first check that one exist in the build system, and possibly have some fallback checking mechanism in case it doesn't. - ML _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
