RE: Detecting availability of a shared libray

[Boehne, Robert]

Sander,

If you can ensure this check is done after the libtool script is created,
you may be able to write a macro similar to AC_CHECK_LIB that uses a
shared library rather than an executable.  If it won't link, you can
assume that there isn't a shared version of the dependent library.
If this test fails, but AC_CHECK_LIB doesn't, then you only have a
static lib.

HTH,

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Sander Niemeijer [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:53 AM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Detecting availability of a shared libray


Is there really nobody who can help me further with this?

Regards,
Sander

On vrijdag, sep 5, 2003, at 17:25 Europe/Amsterdam, Sander Niemeijer 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a package that produces a shared/static library via libtool. 
> However this package needs to make use of some external library for 
> data import/export. Since my library has both a shared and a static 
> version this external library also needs to have at least a shared 
> version available. If this is the case then linking my library with 
> libtool and the appropriate -L and -l flags will work nicely. However, 
> if only a static version of the external library is available then 
> building a shared version of my library will fail (except perhaps on 
> systems that do not need specific PIC flags when creating shared 
> library object files).
>
> My problem is that if I use AC_CHECK_LIB to check for the external 
> library, then the check that is being performed is to see whether the 
> external library can be linked into a program. Now this works of 
> course fine if the external library is only available as a static 
> version. So my question now is, does anybody know whether there is a 
> way to explicitly test for the availability of the shared version of 
> the external library?
>
> Regards,
> Sander Niemeijer
>
>
>



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