Checking for libraries using AC_CHECK_LIB

2001-12-11 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, I have some difficulties to understand the AC_CHECK_LIB macro. Using the argument for the function to be checked defines a dummy header for the function so that the compiler does not complain. But in C++ the case is somewhat different if there are functions residing in namespaces, such

Re: Automake 1.5: Documentation generation

2001-10-04 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hi Steve, I think the way you propose is the best alternative. Hoever, did you come up with some approach to clean up the documentation? As far as I know, there is no such thing like a clean-hook... Lars "Steve M. Robbins" wrote: > > On the topic of automatically-generated documentation, how

Compiling different extensions based on packages

2001-04-04 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, I started using automake/autoconf recently and it works out very well. I also developed some macros for external packages (--with-xxx) which are required in our software. Mostly looking at 'examples' in the autoconf macro archive, I found that a useful macro only checks whether something c