I'm using autoconf 2.65. My configure script (which works fine under Ubuntu
10.04) does not work on an older SuSE system. Here's the problem bit in my
.ac:
AC_CHECK_LIB([Xext], [XShmAttach],
[HAS_LIBXEXT=1;
AC_DEFINE([HAVE_XSHM], 1,
[Define to 1 if you have the `Xext' library (-Xext)
providing
the MIT Shared Memory Extension (SHM), for
double-buffering])],
[HAS_LIBXEXT=0])
X11 is installed in /usr/X11R6/lib etc on this SuSE, one of the older
standard locations; the AC_PATH_X documentation says "...configure looks for
the files in several directories where they often reside", but it does NOT
look in /usr/X11R6/lib. I can satisfy AC_PATH_X by specifying
--x-libraries manually, but that does me no good with the above snippet
since AC_CHECK_LIB doesn't honor --x-libraries, or even know if a given
library is part of X or not.
So....how is this supposed to work??
The whole point of using autoconf is to spare the end-user the need to
configure manually (obviously), so AC_PATH_X not finding X11 is a definite
bummer.
Thanks to any and all help. This is my first time using autotools.
--ian
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