[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] about configure.ac

[From: Murray Cumming]

> I had written something about that.
>
> This document is describing how to include additional library in an
> automake/autoconf project.
> 1)	Check if the library is pkg-config enabled, usually the library
> would have the .pc file in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory.
> 2)	From the .pc file, edit and check the version of the library.
> 3)	At the configure.ac add the following:
>
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(<MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME>, <library_name> >= <VERSION>
> AC_SUBST(<MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME>_LIBS)
> AC_SUBST(<MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME>_CFLAGS)
>
> 4)	At the Makefile.am at the src directory, add the following:
>
> Append $(<MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME>_CFLAGS) in the INCLUDES line.
> Append $(<MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME>_LIBS) in the LDADD line.

It if isn't clear, MACRO_LIBRARY_NAME here is any text that you choose. It
can be anything that you like. In my explanation of this, I suggest that
people just call it DEPS.
http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/using_libraries/using_libraries.shtml#cflagsandlibs


Murray Cumming
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