Hello, I don't have enough experience to answer all your question, but I'll try to provide one suggestion: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Robert Lowe wrote: > 2. A header file which seems to be in different places on some platforms > (net/ethernet.h, sys/ethernet.h, and perhaps others). What am I > supposed to construct to define something that will help me include > the correct header file? configure.ac should contain: AC_CHECK_HEADERS([net/ethernet.h sys/ethernet.h]) And in the header of your project: #ifdef HAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H # include <net/ethernet.h> #else # ifdef HAVE_SYS_ETHERNET_H # include <sys/ethernet.h> # endif #endif If you need at least one of the headers, you can have this in configure.ac: ethernet_h_found=no AC_CHECK_HEADERS([net/ethernet.h sys/ethernet.h], [ethernet_h_found=yes]) if test $ethernet_h_found = no; then AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find ethernet.h]) fi Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
