Re: Problem locating include file

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jon Leighton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working with NSPR on Windows XP, using MozillaBuild 1.3 and Visual
> Studio 2005.  I've added a check to the configure script using
> AC_DEFUN[...], and the check tries to compile and run a small piece of code.
>  I'm having trouble telling the compiler how to find one of the include
> files needed for the code.
>
> I've set CPPFLAGS to specify the include directory using the -I compiler
> option, but for some reason the compiler still can't find the file.  The
> only way I've been able to get it to work is either to place the include
> file in the same directory from which I'm running the configure script, or
> to add the include file's path to the INCLUDE environment variable.
>
> Is there some way to get the -I option to work as expected?  Thanks for any
> help.

I'm not good at autoconf programming, so I don't know how to
solve this problem.  Sorry!

Looking at nsprpub/configure.in, I only see CPPFLAGS used in
AC_DEFUN(MOZ_CHECK_PTHREADS, whereas CFLAGS is
used in many places (search for "_SAVE_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS").

You can email Ted Mielczarek for help (I don't think he reads
this newsgroup):
http://www.mozilla.org/owners.html#nspr

Wan-Teh