Re: [Fwd: ac_path_lib.m4 (from ac-archive0.5.54) patch]

[Guido Draheim]

Agreed,

- the ac_config_pkgconfig_in is in my archive
- using pkg-config has proven very useful to me as well
- it is a good idea to put francesco as maintainer :-)=)
- and in surplus, add a hint to the new pkg-config style
  should be added to the description block.

francesco,

please rebuild the patch and send it to the mailinglist
(ac-archive-maintainers[]gnu.org) - even the original had
been subject to linewrap by your mailclient (as it was
not sent as attachment?!). I'll push it upstream into
all variants around then.

thanks in advance, and have fun, guido



Roger Leigh wrote:
> Guido Draheim <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Hi Franceso,
> >
> > the same about this one, but differently since it is not my macro.
> > The ac-archive does just assemble macros from their resp. authors
> > who have to tell whether an audit is good or right. ;-) I am just
> > forwarding this one to rleigh, may be he has some time to look
> > into this - he's probably very busy, so in any case thanks in
> > advance for tracking those problems and sending patches, we do
> > like that very very much.
>
>
> Seconded!  I have no problems with the patch (but I couldn't apply it,
> since it was quoted-printable and I didn't have time to de-mangle it).
> Feel free to apply to the ac-archive.
>
>
> > From: Francesco Salvestrini <address@hidden>
> > Subject: ac_path_lib.m4 (from ac-archive0.5.54) patch
> > To: address@hidden
> > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:42:19 +0200
> > Organization: META / C.P.R.
> > Reply-To: address@hidden
> >
> > Hi Guido,
> >
> > This is the second patch (i hope you received the first i've sent to you). It 
> > is for ac_path_lib macro. The original macro comes from ac-archive-0.5.54 
> > (maybe the fixes are already on the CVS...).
> >
> > My configuration: autoconf-2.57 and automake-1.7.8
> >
> > NOTE: I'm using the macro not in the default case (pkg-config). Patches refers 
> > to this particular case...
> >
> > Problems (fixed, i hope):
> > 1) Missing HEADER parameter in AC_PATH_LIB 
> > 2) Added inclusion of string.h (for strdup) ... This is not a good solution i 
> > think ...
> > 3) Mispelled _AC_PATH_LIP_CHECK_VERSION changed in _AC_PATH_LIB_CHECK_VERSION 
> > (it should not be a real problem)
>
>
> Wow!  Thanks for taking the time to look at this!
>
>
> > Problems (not fixed):
> > Using the macro two times in the same configure seems that it doesn't reset 
> > the values it uses (). I'm appending the config.log. Look at the two 
> > different tests (the first for SDL library (search "configure:3275"), the 
> > second for xml2 (search "configure:3946")), the first is built correctly 
> > while the second mixes sdl with xml while it should use only xml.
>
>
> Francesco,
>
> I haven't used or hacked on AC_PATH_LIB in over a year.  I wrote it
> originally for the Gimp-Print project, but I have long since switched
> to pkg-config (and AC_CONFIG_PKGCONFIG_IN--not sure if I submitted
> this to the archive), and its own PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro.  I am
> perfectly willing for Guido to take patches from you for this, and
> feel free to add yourself as a copyright holder and become the
> maintainer if you wish, since I no longer have a use for this macro
> myself.  I would be very happy in the knowledge that it continues to
> be useful to others.
>
> If you are not aware of pkg-config, then I would suggest you take a
> look at it, since it saves a lot of time and effort that the old
> library-config scripts took in both generating and using, and
> understands library dependencies, too.  PKG_CHECK_MODULES is a
> replacement for AC_PATH_LIB (the AC_PATH_LIB pkg-config support was
> written so I could transition to PKG_CHECK_MODULES).
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger

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