i think u should refer to the autoconfigure and check how they do these things, all the open source package use configuration file to check the library dependence.
2009/7/15 Rishi Agrawal <[email protected]>: > Hello All, > > I want to check whether a particular library is installed or not using a > shell command. > > I want to write a install script which will first check whether the > libraries required to compile my code are available on the system or not. > > something like #check_library libxml2 (on shell) > or > retval = check_library("libxml2"); will do. > > -- > Regards, > Rishi B. Agrawal > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
