This seems like it should be an obvious question, but I'm not finding any obvious answers in either the libtool or autoconf documentation.
Is there a libtool-aware equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB? In other words, if I want to check for foo_amazing_func() in libfoo, and libfoo was built with libtool (and the libfoo.la is hopefully installed on the system), is there an extant macro something like LT_CHECK_LIB(foo,foo_amazing_func) that will try find foo_amazing_func() in libfoo *and* will pull in all the necessary dependencies for libfoo, automatically? The specific case I'm looking at is for a package that wants to check for libneon. Neon (which is a libtool library) might have been linked against OpenSSL (which might require pthread libraries and/or krb5 libraries), and definitely requires one of libxml2 (which might have requirements like zlib, pthread, libm, et. al.) or expat. If I want to check for libneon at configure time, using just AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_SEARCH_LIB will be extremely painful, because even with the fourth argument to either of those macros, I'll still have to write a battery of configure tests to figure out which particular combination of libraries is required to get libneon and its dependencies. If there's a libtool-aware equivalent macro, it would be so much easier. Tim -- Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
