On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Howard Chu wrote:
I guess I should better probe for libdl and
link with it, too? anthing else?
If you use libtool for linking, and the libltdl.la file is installed, then
dependencies are taken care of automatically. If you're not using libtool for
linking, then you're making a mistake. The point of using libtool and libltdl
is to avoid having to check for other system-specific dependencies. Checking
for libdl is (a) redundant since libtool's configure script would have
already looked for it and (b) insufficient since other platforms may use some
other name for their dynamic linking support library.
So it seems that a libtool-provided macro should be used in
configure.ac to test for an installed libltdl. Testing for it in a
simple way could well indeed result in false negatives due to libltdl
depending on some other library (e.g. -ldl). It is not necessary for
a package to include its own copy of libtool in order to make use of
it. Libtool may already be installed in a standard location.
I may be missing something, but all the libltdl-related macros I see
are for the case of when libltdl is bundled with the package. I don't
see one for simply testing for an already installed libltdl.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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