On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:25 -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Daryl Lee wrote:
> > I am autoconfiscating a project involving other developers. I need a
> > portable way of finding a header (it's an OpenGL header, glut.h, but
> > that's just a specific example). On my machine, it's
> > in /usr/include/GL, but on other machines it may be elsewhere,
> > like /usr/include. The only thing I know to do is just list them in
> > AM_CPPFLAGS, and find them by trial and error. That seems a tad kludgy
> > to me. I expect I'll have a similar issue with libraries once I get
> > over this hurdle.
>
> Hi Daryl,
>
> There are two conventions generally available:
>
> ${package}-config cflags ; ${package}-config link|ldflags
>
> sometimes, those arguments have a hyphen or two in front of them.
> See if OpenGL has one of these. More recently, "pkg-config"
> has started becoming popular, but for now it must be a backup
> solution:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
And, of course, if no ${package}.pc file exists, I'm out of luck, yes?
--
Daryl Lee
Open the Present--It's a Gift.
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