On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:13, Sergio Belkin <sebelk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am autoconfiscating a project that has a header file with a line: > > #include <postgresql/libpq-fe.h> > > configure.ac has: > > AC_CHECK_HEADERS(postgresql/libpq-fe.h) > > The problem is that Ubuntu has such a header file on > /usr/include/postgresq but fedora has it on /usr/include. So how can > I make that configure script checks for differents paths? Assuming that o Fedora has requested header as /usr/include/libpq-fe.h o Ubuntu has requested header as /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h (otherwise I see no problems at all, just use CPPFLAGS approrach as already suggested) Then you can to check both in configure.ac and use result in the source code: configure.ac: AC_CHECK_HEADERS([postgresql/libpq-fe.h libpq-fe.h], [break], [AC_MSG_ERROR([PostgreSQL headers not found or not usable])]) Source code: #if defined(POSTGRESQL_LIBPQ_FE_H) # include <postgresql/libpq-fe.h> #elif defined(LIBPQ_FE_H) # include <libpq-fe.h> #else # error impossible because of AC_MSG_ERROR(), but... #endif Of cource you can play with [action-not-found] (for example remove AC_MSG_ERROR() completely and don't abort configure if nither header found), and simplify "#include" dance to #if defined(POSTGRESQL_LIBPQ_FE_H) # include <postgresql/libpq-fe.h> #else # include <libpq-fe.h> #endif for allow tuning CPPFLAGS by hands at the make(1) invocation, for example... Or anything what you want. PS. Untested, I didn't compile actually these examples, but hope you get the idea. -- Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf