Re: LT_* equivalent to AC_CHECK_LIB?

[Sander Niemeijer]

Here are some links to the archive that you might find interesting:

My suggestion for a LT_AC_CHECK_SHLIB:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-10/msg00222.html

Mind that there is a difference between linking a library against a  
library and linking a library against an application. When linking a  
library against a library you can not (portably) link a static  
library against a shared library. Since libtool is able to check for  
such things this was the reason that I wanted a special CHECK_SHLIB.

Links about LT_OUTPUT:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/threads.html#00372
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-08/msg00099.html

Best regards,
Sander

On 3-jul-2006, at 20:52, 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?
>
> 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
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