On Monday 27 June 2005 02:09 am, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Small suggestion for your macro: users might want to be able to react > differently to that fact that a macro may not be available. Overridable > optional arguments [ACTION-IF-FOUND], [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND] would make > this easy. (This situation is common for, say, macros in new versions). Hmmm, it was my first ever m4 macro. I'll be happy to fix it to be like that, I was trying to imitate other autoconf macros. :) I could use a pointer to some documentation on the subject, though. I think I need to learn another macro language just to understand the m4 manual. Or I need a nap, one of the two. > I can't speak for the Autoconf developers, but you might just have more > chances of acceptance in the autoconf macro archives[1]. Speaking of, > there seems to be a macro with similar functionality already listed > there, which you may be able to make use of. Which one? Turns out those links are purple in my browser, so I guess I visited there looking for python macros already. :) The only one I found, while very useful, only checks the python version. There is one that ships with (I forget which) either autoconf or automake that sets a bunch of variables with things like Python's package directory and so forth. What I didn't find was a macro to check for specific python modules installed and available for use by python programs. Heck, not even distutils will let you check for that stuff. Hmmm, there is a way, but it's a hack on top of distutils (or at least, I think it is, possible others disagree with me *and* are right). Dave > Regards, > Ralf > > [1] http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ > http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/ > > > dnl macro that checks for specific modules in python > > AC_DEFUN([AC_PYTHON_MODULE], > > [AC_MSG_CHECKING(for module $1 in python) > > echo "import $1" | python - > > if test $? -ne 0 ; then > > AC_MSG_RESULT(not found) > > AC_MSG_ERROR(You need the module $1 available to python for this package) > > fi > > AC_MSG_RESULT(found) > > ]) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
