Re: how to check linked libarys?

2006-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Yapo wrote on Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:49:02PM CEST: I have created configure.in that tests if libary libz.so exists with AC_CHECK_FILE (i don't want to search with funcion in AC_CHECK_LIB), Why do you do or need that? This sounds very counterintuitive: typically you try to set up

Re: making part of package optional at ./configure time

2006-09-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Mick, * mick wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:36:15AM CEST: I am trying to make the inclusion of a module of my program an option configurable in ./configure but can't get it right. At the moment I have in configure.ac AC_ARG_ENABLE(webcam, [ --disable-webcam

RFC: rename symbols to m4symbols

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 symbols is an English word, but was added to m4-1.4o as a macro that takes 0 arguments (even worse, the 1.4o manual documented the new macro, but NEWS did not). This has the potential to break preprocessing of English text that used to work with m4

Re: RFC: rename symbols to m4symbols

2006-09-18 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Eric! On 18 Sep 2006, at 14:09, Eric Blake wrote: symbols is an English word, but was added to m4-1.4o as a macro that takes 0 arguments (even worse, the 1.4o manual documented the new macro, but NEWS did not). This has the potential to

./configure --help doesn't mention LIBS

2006-09-18 Thread Olly Betts
This is with autoconf 2.60. After mail from a user who'd tried to specify -llibrary in LDFLAGS I was suprised to realise that the output of ./configure --help doesn't mention LIBS at all. I think it should - while the autoconf info manual documents both LDFLAGS and LIBS and the distinction

Re: making part of package optional at ./configure time

2006-09-18 Thread mick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:34, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Mick, * mick wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:36:15AM CEST: I am trying to make the inclusion of a module of my program an option configurable in ./configure but can't get it right. Use something like AC_ARG_ENABLE([webcam],