Re: AC_CHECK_LIB and FreeBSD

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0800, Brad Douglas wrote:
> I use the following in configure.in:
> 
> AC_CHECK_LIB(popt, poptGetContext, [AC_CHECK_HEADER(popt.h,,)],               
>         AC_MSG_ERROR([popt library is required.]))
> 
> This works fine with Linux and Solaris, but FreeBSD is unable to find the 
> header or library (they are installed in /usr/local/...).  I've tried 
> several variations of the above including checking for the header 
> separately.
> 
> Does AC_CHECK_LIB/HEADER() not search /usr/local on FreeBSD?  Any help 
> would be greatly appreciated.

The macros just use the compiler; look in config.log to see the test
program used.  So the real question is: does FreeBSD's compiler search
/usr/lib?  Maybe you need to set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS before running
configure.

-S

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