On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Albert Chin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:20:45PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Autoconf can not depend on libtool, so Autoconf should not provide
such a macro, but it certainly makes sense for libtool to provide a
LT_CHECK_LIB as you describe.
I disagree. Users shouldn't have to go through any more effort to use
libtool. Libtool should replace things like AC_CHECK_LIB,
AC_TRY_COMPILE, etc. with invocations to use ./libtool rather than
$CC, $CXX, etc.
In this case, users would be doing less work. With the current
scheme, portable software needs to know about all of the library
dependencies in order for AC_CHECK_LIB to work at all. This can be a
lot of work and is a common point of failure. The current workaround
is to use a -config script to obtain library dependency info.
Unfortunately, various OS distributions have made a habit of deleting
the .la files so a LT_CHECK_LIB would not be as helpful as it might
appear.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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