Re: autoconf

On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:07, David wrote:
> I've been working for the last several days on adding lirc support
> directally into 'madplay' and am almost done, but I have a few questions
> that would make the finishing touches a lot easier.
>
> Question:
>
> I don't know anything about autoconf or automake or what a m4 macro is.
> I have manually edited the Makefile to support my builds, but i'm trying
> for correct implementation.  The lirc web site says that only the
> following lines would be neded to add to the configuration process (files)
> to check for support.
>
> here is the site for refereence.
> http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#library
>
> dnl Check for LIRC client support
> dnl This really is not worth making a separate file for it.
>
> have_lirc=yes
> AC_REQUIRE_CPP
> AC_CHECK_LIB(lirc_client,lirc_init,
>   AC_CHECK_HEADER(lirc/lirc_client.h,true,have_lirc=no),have_lirc=no)
>
> if test "$have_lirc" = "yes"; then
> dnl  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIRC);
>   true;
> else
>   AC_MSG_ERROR([*** LIRC client support not available ***]);
> fi
>
> Can someone plese tell me where and in which file to add these lines?  Or
> just forward to me directally a copy of the files in a fixed state.
This is part of configure.ac

> I'm not sure that this is all that is actually needed I did have to add
> this line to the Makefile to correctly link the program
>
> LDFLAGS += /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so
try with -llirc_client. I don't remember if autoconf will add this for you. If 
it doesn't, add the LDFLAGS line in the true branch of the "if" in the 
configure.ac.

> Hope this helps, and sorry I really don't understand automake and conf.

Rafael