[maemo-developers] How to detect Maemo in automake?

[From: Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:10 +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> I think that he meant how to *detect* Maemo (i.e, without having to
> ask the user).
> 
> I used to check for the existence of libosso, but since it's available
> in Debian (http://packages.debian.org/libosso) I'm also checking
> whether we're running inside the scratchbox, so you could use
> something like this:
> 
> if $PKG_CONFIG --exists libosso && readlink /etc|grep -q ^/targets; then
>    DETECTED_PLATFORM=maemo                                                      
> fi

What if I want a "maemo" build on Ubuntu Mobile, or any other system
which has the Maemo stack?  It's best to make it explicit at configure
time because having too much magic means it breaks if your assumptions
fail.

Ross
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