Re: how to link with installed libltdl?

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:28:24PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 16:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > So it seems that a libtool-provided macro should be used in 
> > configure.ac to test for an installed libltdl.  Testing for it in a 
> > simple way could well indeed result in false negatives due to libltdl 
> > depending on some other library (e.g. -ldl).  It is not necessary for 
> > a package to include its own copy of libtool in order to make use of 
> > it.  Libtool may already be installed in a standard location.
> > 
> > I may be missing something, but all the libltdl-related macros I see 
> > are for the case of when libltdl is bundled with the package.  I don't 
> > see one for simply testing for an already installed libltdl.
> 
> thanks bob, that is exactly the problem I'm facing.
> 
> now I wonder: if the libtool *.la files contain all information
> about the dependencies etc, then shouldn't there be some macro that
> searches for that *.la files, gets the dependencies from it, does
> the compile and link test and sets up CFLAGS and LIBS to include
> whatever is necessary?
> 
> is there something that works like AC_CHECK_LIB, except that
> AC_CHECK_LIB seems to have no clue about *.la files, so is there
> some alternative that does?

Why don't we install a pkg-config .pc file for ltdl? That would solve
your problem easily.

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albert chin (address@hidden)