RE: A newbie asks...

[Guus Leeuw jr.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:autoconf-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Robert Lowe
> Sent: vendredi 3 décembre 2004 00:31
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: A newbie asks...
> 
> 1. POSIX threads
>     Is this solved as easily as adding the acx_pthread macro in
> aclocal.m4, then
>     calling it in configure.ac and using the defined variables to properly
> set
>     my foo_CFLAGS, foo_LIBS (or do I use LDADD?), etc., in my Makefile.am?

Yes it is ;)

> 2. A header file which seems to be in different places on some platforms
>     (net/ethernet.h, sys/ethernet.h, and perhaps others).  What am I
> supposed to
>     construct to define something that will help me include the correct
> header
>     file?

AC_CHECK_HEADERS([some.h other.h])
Will generate #define HAVE_SOME_H and #define HAVE_OTHER_H if the headers
were found. Then in your code, you can do fancy stuff with the pre-processor
based on these #defines.
Also, there is quite a couple of predefined checks for special
headers/functions that you might to check out, e.g. AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES

Regards,
Guus

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