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

[From: Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia Wednesday, 20 of February 2008, Alberto Garcia napisał:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:00:50PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > > Now for my next question: How do i detect maemo correctly in
> > > > autoconf?

> 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
>
> If there's an "official" way (or just a better one) to detect if we're
> compiling for Maemo I'd like to know.

I wonder why this is really needed... If application is for Maemo then it 
use its libraries (libosso, libhildon) and should check for those 
libraries not for scratchbox. 

Or "--enable-maemo" switch should be used - if someone wants to build 
software for Maemo then adding one parametr to "./configure" call should 
be enough.

Think about people who use normal cross-compilation (for example 
OpenEmbedded) instead of scarybox.

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