Lars Segerlund writes: > > Hi, > > I am packaging an old program with autoconf/make and I have a check > that fails without any explanation I can think of. > > AC_CHECK_LIB(X11,XOpenDisplay) > > fails, however the program uses X11 and I just don't understand whats > going on ? > > also I have seen some checks like > > AC_CHECK_LIB( GL, main) > > which are ok ? can somebody help me ?
If you just want to check for the presence of X, see the autoconf manual for AC_PATH_X and AC_PATH_XTRA. Your check fails (probably) because the linker requires additional libraries. config.log usually tells you what's going on.
