Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> I am writing a program that is compiled with popt if present, and falls back to
> a simple option parser if it isn't. I got that much to work, using
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(popt.h) in configure.in . I am stumped, however, how to get it
> to link with popt if and only if it compiled with popt. How do I do this?
>
> phma
Add program_LDADD = @SOME_AUTOCONF_VAR@ to the Makefile.am and then set
the variable to "-lpopt" in configure.in when the library is present.
You can also modify the LIBS variable in configure.in but I have had
problems messing with the builtin variables.
Michael
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