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Re: aclocal question (AM_ICONV)
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: aclocal question (AM_ICONV) |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Bill Moseley <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:13:31 -0700
>
> I wanted to use the AM_ICONV macro which is in the gettext package in a
> configure.in file.
You're a brave man; not many people use that.
Why do you need AM_ICONV? Are you using iconv directly? Typically,
these days, people just put this into their configure.in:
AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
and then they don't need to worry about gettext's use of iconv, since
they don't have an intl subdirectory.
> I installed gettext, and the macros m4 were installed in
> /usr/local/share/aclocal.
It's a bad idea to rely on this, since it means that only you can
configure your package. I would put those .m4 files into an m4
subdirectory of your package, and distribute those .m4 files.
Then you can use aclocal -I m4. Most people do it this eay.
> BTW -- are there macros available for testing libxml2 and zlib?
Not that I know of, but quite possibly there are some somewhere.