Hello Brian, * Brian Gough wrote on Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:03:19AM CEST: > At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:54:33 +0200, > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > It would be prudent and good style if GSL offered to its users a macro > > or a couple, say gsl_CHECK_GSL that would check for presence of the > > library (and needed libs) and headers. Maybe even add a switch > > --with-gsl[=PREFIX] or so. And the best thing is: such a thing already > > exists: on my Debian system it's at /usr/share/aclocal/gsl.m4 and part > > of the package libgsl0, the macro is named AM_PATH_GSL (too bad it > > invades Automake name space...). > > Can you tell me what the recommeded form for the name should be? I > will change it. Thanks. See <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Macro-Names.html>. Name is in a way that makes it clear that Automake isn't the source of this macro. For example gsl_PATH_GSL, or AX_PATH_GSL (but if everyone uses AX_, the clash probability is obviously higher than if not). Since your name is already published though (and in widespread usage I assume), it's prudent to provide a backward compatibility alias, in which case your users' configure.ac script continue to work, but also can be updated with autoupdate to use the new name: AC_DEFUN([gsl_PATH_GSL], [# macro definition # ... ]) # Provide for the old name: AU_ALIAS([AM_PATH_GSL], [gsl_PATH_GSL]) If that naming or capitalization causes your editor or other tools not to highlight the macro name appropriately, then it's time we fix the editor and the tools. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
