Re: recommended sequence to add libtool to an existing configure.ac

[Ed Mansky]

Thanks Eric for the quick reply.

Good to know I am following a generally sound track. And yes, I did 
run libtoolize and already had added the items in the output.

Another question comes to mind now.

  Which of the macros :

AC_CANCAONICAL_SYSTEM

AC_CANONICAL_HOST

AC_CANONICAL_BUILD

AC_CANONICAL_TARGET

should one use in a configure.ac ?

Or should it be SYSTEM  --or--   the triplet HOST/BUILD/TARGET ?

The configure.ac I am starting with used SYSTEM alone, and I added 
the HOST macro too.

Thanks!

--Ed

> On 02/06/2014 09:50 AM, Ed Mansky wrote:
>
> >  I did the following in sequence:
> >
> >  1) Ran autoscan against the directory tree of the package. I added the
> >  missing macros to the existing configure.ac script that the autoscan
> >  result suggested.
> >
> >  2) Added LT_INIT to configure.ac
> >
> >  3) Ran autoreconf --install
>
> Yep, sounds fairly accurate.  You may also need to run libtoolize to set
> up the framework that libtool needs.  You'll probably get better answers
> from the libtool list, as this is more of a libtool usage question than
> an autoconf question.
>
> >  I thought it would be better to add libtool functionality via the
> >  correct macros to configure.ac, rather than hack at the configure script
> >  directly.
>
> This part is absolutely true - you don't want to edit the generated
> configure file, because those edits would be lost on the next run of
> autoreconf.
>
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E. J. Mansky II
Eikonal Research Institute
Bend, Oregon