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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB? |
Date: | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:20:45 -0500 (CDT) |
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Tim Mooney wrote:
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?
I don't believe there is. Autoconf can not depend on libtool, so Autoconf should not provide such a macro, but it certainly makes sense for libtool to provide a LT_CHECK_LIB as you describe. A challenge is that in libtool 2.0, the libtool script is not generated until the end of the configure script run (an `enhancement' in 2.0) so it is not available for use. The macro would need to emulate the operation of libtool since libtool is not available yet.
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