Russ Allbery wrote: > Braden McDaniel <[email protected]> writes: > >> If all your --with argument would be doing is dumbly appending >> "/include" and "/lib" for -I and -L flags, I don't see the point. > > I provide --with-* options for all optional libraries because sometimes > they do something else and sometimes they don't, and this way I provide a > consistent API to everyone building the package. Actually, I provide > three options: --with-foo that sets the prefix, --with-foo-include that > sets the -I option only, and --with-foo-lib that sets the -L option only. > --with-foo does some work to figure out lib vs. lib32 vs. lib64, and for > some libraries it does other things instead. (For Kerberos, for instance, > the --with-foo path is used to find the right krb5-config script to run.) >
I also provide --with-* options for all optional libs for the same reason. I've taken to using the excellent AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS that gettext provides in their m4 files so that I don't have to rewrite the logic every single time. Monty _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
