I tried what you suggested and it works just fine, so I guess this is the correct way to implement C++ functions. It is way more complicated than the C functions. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. aa Peter Johansson-6 wrote: > > Hello, > > [adding autoconf list again] > > Alejandro Marcos Aragón wrote: >> Well, I tried to put the namespace as well, but the test failed. >> >> > I suppose you mean that you tried > > AC_SEARCH_LIBS([cpputils::flip], [cpputils],,[AC_MSG_ERROR(library > cpputils not > found)]) > > > which would result in test code: > > char cpputils::flip (); > int > main () > { > return cpputils::flip (); > ; > return 0; > } > > > which is not what we desired. We would like something like (I'm not > certain of your exact signature): > > namespace cpputils { > void flip (double); > } > int > main () > { > using namespace cpputils; > flip (1.0); > ; > return 0; > } > > > You could achieve this by rather calling AC_LINK_IFELSE as below > > LIBS="$LIBS -lcpputils" > AC_MSG_CHECKING([for flip in cpputils]) > AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[ > namespace cpputils { > void flip(double); > } > ]], > [using namespace cpputils; > flip(1.0);]) > ], > [AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])], > [AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) > AC_MSG_ERROR([library cpputils not found]) > ] > ) > > > Hope that helps. > > > Peter > > > >> aa >> >> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:26 -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: >> >>> aaragon wrote: >>> >>>> aaragon@aaragon-laptop:~/Lib/lib$ nm -g libcpputils.so | grep flip | >>>> c++filt >>>> 00003c20 T cpputils::flip(double) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Isn't the problem that flip(double) is in namespace cpputils? >>> >>> Peter >>> >> >> > > > -- > Peter Johansson > > svndigest maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/svndigest > yat maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat > > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/library-search-test-fails%2C-please-help-tp22140739p22173158.html Sent from the Gnu - Autoconf - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf