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Re: Integration of autoconf and pkg-config


From: Patrick Welche
Subject: Re: Integration of autoconf and pkg-config
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:57:53 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-03-22)

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Wednesday 2007-12-19 14:38:31 +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:31:16AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > Just another little newbie question, am I supposed to copy the pkg.m4
> > > file containing the macro somewhere into my package (e.g. in
> > > aclocal.m4)?
> > 
> > I don't know about pkg.m4 specifically, but if there is a macro in it
> > which you need, I would e.g. create a directory m4, copy pkg.m4 into it,
> > add
> >    AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
> > to configure.ac, and
> >    ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
> > to Makefile.am (assuming you are using automake)
...
> The abovementioned solution without using automake doesn't work, while it
> works simply putting in aclocal.m4 the used macros. 

How about running "aclocal -I m4" to generate your aclocal.m4 from
the files in m4? (I also thought that acinclude.m4 might be a better
place for putting your own macros, as it doesn't get overwritten
by things like aclocal.) (..or just add
  m4_include([m4/pkg.m4])
to the end of aclocal.m4)

Cheers,

Patrick




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