Re: NSUUID patch

[David Chisnall]

Hi Niels, Eric,

Don't forget that FreeBSD includes DCE 1.1 compliant UUID functions in libc, so 
that on this platform the test should succeed whether or not they are 
available, assuming that you are using these functions.

David

On 26 Jun 2013, at 08:09, Niels Grewe <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Am 26.06.2013 um 08:31 schrieb Eric Wasylishen <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Here's a patch I'm working on that implements NSUUID using libuuid.
>> 
>> I'm having trouble figuring out what to put in the autoconf.ac.
> 
> Ah yes, the joyously frivolous enigma that is GNU autoconf ;-)
> 
>> Does anyone know of a template I should look at?
> 
> I've looked at the configure.ac from base when I prepared the configure.ac 
> for dbuskit, except for the more arcane stuff, the patterns are mostly the 
> same everywhere.
> 
>> I'm sure what I'm doing now isn't correct… :
>> 
>> +      HAVE_UUID=1
>> +      UUID_CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags uuid`
>> +      UUID_LIBS=`pkg-config --libs uuid`
> 
> I think it will have the right effect, but I'd replace the above three lines 
> with the following:
> 
>> if test $PKGCONFIG = yes; then
>> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UUID, uuid, HAVE_UUID=1, HAVE_UUID=0)
>> else 
>> # do AC_CHECK_HEADERS and AC_CHECK_LIBS stuff and set UUID_CFLAGS and 
>> UUID_LIBS manually
>> fi
> 
>> +      CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $UUID_CFLAGS"
>> +      INCLUDE_FLAGS="$INCLUDE_FLAGS $UUID_CFLAGS"
>> +      LIBS="$UUID_LIBS $LIBS"
>> +      LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $UUID_LIBS"
>> +      LDIR_FLAGS="$LDIR_FLAGS $UUID_LIBS"
>> 
>> I'll also need to add a regular AC_CHECK_LIBS check if pkg-config isn't 
>> present.
> 
> I'd just adapt one of the existing AC_CHECK_HEADERS/AC_CHECK_LIBS checks from 
> base. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niels
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