Re: How to specify a custom library directory

2008-12-21 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Bastien Dalla Piazza wrote: > I need to give the possibility to the user to specify custom directories for > external libraries which must be linked to my program. > So this would be an argument to the configure script like -- name>-dir=. This is usually done wit

Re: Getting data from a nested configure script?

2008-12-26 Thread Allan Caffee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Benoit Sigoure wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Ralf Wildenhues > wrote: >> * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:11:17AM CET: >> echo '@CFLAGS@' | ./config.status --file=- Is there a simple way to do this inside a Makefile without having t

Re: Getting data from a nested configure script?

2008-12-26 Thread Allan Caffee
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Allan Caffee" writes: > >> Is there a simple way to do this inside a Makefile without having the >> value get expanded by our own configure script? I was thinking >> something like: >> >>

Re: library search test fails, please help

2009-02-22 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, aaragon wrote: > I found working with autoconf sometimes very frustrating. Let's see if we can't change that. :) >This is an > example. I want to check for a particular static library that I created. > Thus, I put the following in the configure.ac file > > AC_CHECK_LIB([cp

Re: library search test fails, please help

2009-02-22 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, aaragon wrote: > I'm using g++ v.4.3 on Ubuntu linux. I did check the config.log file to see > the source of error ever time. If you see above, the error in my last post > does not make any sense because the shared libraries are under that > directory that I include using -L.

Re: library search test fails, please help

2009-02-23 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Duane Ellis wrote: > Allan Caffee wrote: > >> AC_CHECK_LIB (AFAIK) is not intended to handle static libraries. > > I don't know much about AC_CHECK_LIB.. > >> The reason for this is that compilers handle static libraries quite &

OT: The autoconf-archive maintainer

2009-03-25 Thread Allan Caffee
Can someone please verify that the autoconf-archive maintainer address is ? I got the address off of this (obnoxiously colored) webpage http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to it's also in the README from the most recent tarball. I sent a patch series in almost a month and a half ago and still have not r

Re: Problem using AC_LANG_PROGRAM with AC_EGREP_CPP

2009-03-30 Thread Allan Caffee
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 07:27 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to Braden McDaniel on 3/27/2009 11:02 PM: > > > When I try to use AC_LANG_PROGRAM in conjunction with AC_EGREP_CPP, I'm > > > s