On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:48:08PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > * Sylvain Beucler wrote on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:55:56PM CEST: > > > > (I'm not 100% sure this is the right list, please let me know if this > > is the case :)) > > Good enough, I'd say. > > > I'd like to implement something like gettext's inclusion of 'libintl', > > which can be either included in the source tarball (for users), or > > reused from a system library (for distros). > > > > gettext's implementation looks complicated. Is there an easier way to > > do the job? I'm pretty sure there are some caveats to be aware of when > > specifying the library. > > I think so. FWIW libltdl is similar (but probably even more > complicated). > > Anyway, for a start I'd try to use an AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS in the toplevel > package (ignores non-existent subdirs), a subdir conigure for the > library, and set LIBFOO, LTLIBFOO, INCFOO (or whatever naming) > accordingly in a m4 macro that you ship to use. The important bit when > using libtool is that you specify (and use) LTLIBFOO as sub/libfoo.la > when internal. I think the gnulib module havelib can help you. > > Hope that helps.
Thanks, I'll have a look. -- Sylvain
