Thanks! The gist of the original problem is that I have a program that
embeds Mozilla using the gtkembedmoz GTK+ widget. In the ./configure
script I wanted to check that Mozilla was available (both the library
and header file needed for compilation).
D
Nick Blievers wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't really know anything about what you are doing... but!
> $ == end of line
> so
> echo $path | sed 's/\/$//'
> should do what you want :)
>
>
> Nick
>
>
> PS You reply to address is a bit messed up.... should it really have
> netscape.com on the end?
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dominic Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 3:51
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan
>>Mosedale
>>Subject: Re: Configuring ./configure to locate mozilla installation
>>
>>
>>Thanks Dan,
>>
>>I went and wrote some stuff to do what I want for now and have attached
>>it below. To use it, attach it to the end of your aclocal.m4 and call
>>AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA() from your configure.in. The following (probably
>>dangerous and/or foolish) assumptions are made:
>>
>>1) The default location for libgtkmozembed.so is /usr/local/mozilla.
>>This can be over-ridden with the --with-mozilla-dir=DIR configure option.
>>
>>2) The default location for gtkmozembed.h is the current directory. This
>>can be over-ridden with the --with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR configure
>>switch. This implies that people who are distributing source code will
>>need to include gtkmozembed.h, begging the question of whether this is a
>>platform independent chunk of code.
>>
>>3) The directories the user provides with the --with switches are not
>>"trailing slash safe". IOW, if the user types /usr/lib/mozilla/ instead
>>of /usr/lib/mozilla it won't work. [Hangs head in shame at his lack of
>>sed know-how]
>>
>>4) C++ is the language used -- I couldn't immediately muddle out how to
>>check the AC_PROG_* language selection so just put a comment in below
>>where you need to change CXXFLAGS to CFLAGS if you are of the AC_PROG_CC
>>persuasion.
>>
>>5) I've only tried this on Linux. When I get some free time I'll try it
>>on the Sourceforge build farm on some other platforms.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> D
>>
>>dnl *********************** append to aclocal.m4 ****
>>dnl
>>dnl AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA()
>>dnl Sets up LIBS and C[XX]FLAGS for you
>>dnl Dominic Tracey
>>dnl
>>Aquilon Technology Systems, Inc.
>>dnl
>>1/23/02
>>dnl
>>AC_DEFUN(AQ_CHECK_MOZILLA, [
>>
>>AC_MSG_CHECKING("Mozilla lib dir")
>>mozilla_lib_dir="/usr/local/mozilla"
>>AC_ARG_WITH(mozilla-dir, [--with-mozilla-dir=DIR specify where
>>mozilla is installed],
>> mozilla_lib_dir="$withval")
>>AC_MSG_RESULT($mozilla_lib_dir)
>>
>>dnl check for mozilla lib
>>dnl assuming no trailing backslash on the provided directory! Should trim!
>>dnl cannot muster sed technology...
>>moz_lib_file="/libgtkembedmoz.so"
>>moz_lib=$mozilla_lib_dir$moz_lib_file
>>
>>if test ! -e $moz_lib; then
>> AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find the Mozilla installation. If
>>you don't have mozilla installed, please download it from
>>http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
>>If you have Mozilla installed, try telling configure
>>the directory where it can be found with:
>>
>> ./configure --with-mozilla-dir=DIR
>>
>>replacing DIR with the Mozilla installation directory.
>>See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
>>fi
>>
>>LIBS="$LIBS -L$mozilla_lib_dir"
>>
>>dnl now the include file -- assume its distributed with the program
>>dnl being installed (though allow an over-ride if someone wants to
>>dnl use the version in a source tree). Not sure how platform independent
>>dnl gtkmozembed.h is.
>>
>>AC_MSG_CHECKING("Mozilla include dir")
>>mozilla_incl_dir="."
>>AC_ARG_WITH(mozilla-incl-dir, [--with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR
>>specify where mozilla header file gtkembed.h is],
>> mozilla_incl_dir="$withval")
>>AC_MSG_RESULT($mozilla_incl_dir)
>>
>>dnl check for gtkmozembed.h
>>dnl assuming no trailing backslash on the provided directory! Should trim!
>>dnl cannot muster sed technology...
>>moz_incl_file="/gtkmozembed.h"
>>moz_incl=$mozilla_incl_dir$moz_incl_file
>>
>>if test ! -e $moz_incl; then
>> AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find the Mozilla header file
>>gtkmozembed.h.
>>If you don't have this file on your system, please download a
>>source package
>>from http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
>>If you have this file, try telling configure where you have it installed
>>with:
>>
>> ./configure --with-mozilla-incl-dir=DIR
>>
>>replacing DIR with the directory name where gtkmozembed.h lives.
>>See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
>>fi
>>
>>dnl Note the C++ hard code here. If you use AC_PROG_CC in your
>>configure.in,
>>dnl you'll want to change the CXXFLAGS below to CFLAGS.
>>if test $mozilla_incl_dir != "."; then
>> CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$mozilla_incl_dir `gtk-config --cflags`"
>>else
>> CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS `gtk-config --cflags`"
>>fi
>>
>>dnl try it out -- if successful sets config.h and LIBS ovar
>>AC_CHECK_LIB(gtkembedmoz,gtk_moz_embed_new,,BAD_LINK=t)
>>
>>if test BAD_LINK = t; then
>> AC_MSG_ERROR([
>>
>>The specified library, $MOZ_LIB, did not work properly.
>>Perhaps you need a newer version of Mozilla.
>>
>>If you don't have mozilla installed, please download it from
>>http://mozilla.org before continuing with this installation.
>>If you have Mozilla installed, try telling configure
>>where you have it installed with:
>>
>> ./configure --with-mozilla-dir=DIR
>>
>>replacing DIR with the Mozilla installation directory.
>>See the file 'config.log' for further diagnostics.])
>>
>>fi
>>
>>])
>>
>>dnl **************** end aclocal.m4 addition ********
>>
>>Dan Mosedale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm developing a GTK+ app that uses the gtkembedmoz control. I
>>>>
>>am trying
>>
>>>>to leverage the GNU make tools to make my app as platform
>>>>
>>independent as
>>
>>>>possible so I don't want to distribute pre-compiled gecko
>>>>
>>components but
>>
>>>>rather use ./configure to set up everything I need to build.
>>>>
>>Initially I
>>
>>>>am focusing on *NIX builds. I don't have much experience with autoconf
>>>>so some of these questions may be dumb. Here are the problems I think I
>>>>am looking at:
>>>>
>>>>1) I'd like people to just be able to install the vanilla binary builds
>>>>and have my program's configure find the appropriate installed
>>>>libraries. I don't believe the mozilla installation either a) puts the
>>>>necessary libraries in a system library path or b) updates the linker's
>>>>search path (in /etc/ld.so.conf). This makes it tough to use the
>>>>AC_CHECK_LIB macro. Any thoughts on this? I can include a
>>>>--with-mozilla-dir=DIR configure option but that still doesn't give me
>>>>enough to use AC_CHECK_LIB since there is no way to provide a -L
>>>>directory to the test linker.
>>>>
>>>>2) I don't see any headers installed with the vanilla distributions. My
>>>>application needs to #include gtkmozembed.h. The mozilla
>>>>
>>./configure has
>>
>>>>munged my copy of gtkmozembed.h so I'm assuming can't just package a
>>>>copy in with my source code. Or is this not true?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I've added .unix to the newsgroups line, in the hopes that someone
>>>there who knows a bit more (blizzard? cls?) will chime in with advice
>>>for the above questions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there an aclocal.m4 out there that I can start with to resolve some
>>>>of these issues? Or am I left with no option but to release
>>>>platform-specific source distributions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>If there's not, consider filing a bug in bugzilla to create one and
>>>get it checeked into the Mozilla tree. I think many folks would be
>>>interested in building off such work.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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