Bruce Momjian writes: > Oh, so you are saying let most uses of src/port use the *.o files that > are in the directory, and it isn't needed to have other directories use > the link trick. Just let me know what people want.
What I want is this: In configure.in, call AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([inet_aton ...]) # the whole list If you need more sophisticated checks on top of "function exists", you keep the existing tests, but instead of, say, SNPRINTF=snprintf.c AC_SUBST(SNPRINTF) you'd call AC_LIBOBJ(snprintf) In Makefile.global.in: LIBOBJS = @LIBOBJS@ In utils/port/Makefile: libpgport.a: $(LIBOBJS) ar crs $@ $^ In Makefile.global.in: Add -L$(top_builddir)/src/port to LDFLAGS (near the start), -lpgport to LIBS (near the end). Then you need to make sure that the src/port directory is build before being referred to. In the libpq makefile, you can write the rules like: ifneq(,$(filter snprintf.o, $(LIBOBJS))) # do what it's doing now in case of 'ifdef SNPRINF' endif Caveat implementor. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]