Re: configure --something= location of GraphicsMagick-config

On 4 Jan 2004, David N. Welton wrote:

> I'm trying to thrash the auto/make/whatever scripts into shape for
> TclMagick.  Unfortunately, I'm not very knowledgeable about this
> aspect of things (to tell the truth, I hate auto*).  I know I need
> something for configure to do --with-graphicsmagick, but I'm not quite
> sure how to go about implementing that.  Is there anything like it
> already?  Hope that makes sense:-/

Ideally the top GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick configure script would be
enhanced so that TclMagick is subordinate and doesn't even need its
own configure script.  Most of what TclMagick needs is already known
to GraphicsMagick's configure script so only a Makefile.am would be
necessary.  This way there is no doubt what form of Magick is being
used, and if it is compatible.

That said, you would use the AC_ARG_WITH Autoconf macro to add a
new --with or --without option:

AC_ARG_WITH(graphicsmagick,
  [ --without-graphicsmagick     Use ImageMagick rather than GraphicsMagick ],
  [ with_graphicsmagick=$withval],
  [ with_graphicsmagick='yes'])

and then you would test to see if with_graphicsmagick is set to 'no'
or 'yes' in order to decide which package should be used.

Naturally the option should be --without-graphicsmagick for the
purposes of this list. :-)

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen



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