Hello Zack, * Zack Weinberg wrote on Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:23:46AM CEST: > The obvious way to detect that you're on MinGW and you need to stick > -lws2_32 on your link line for 'ntohl' is [...] > AC_LANG_CONFTEST([AC_LANG_PROGRAM( > [#ifdef _WIN32 > #include <winsock2.h> > #else > #include <arpa/inet.h> > #endif], > [return (int)ntohl(42);])]) > > Is there a neater way to do this test than by copying the entire > definition of AC_SEARCH_LIBS into my configure.ac (or my aclocal.m4) > and hacking it up? Maybe wrap your AC_SEARCH_LIBS call into m4_pushdef([AC_LANG_CALL], [modified version that does TRT])dnl ... m4_popdef([AC_LANG_CALL])dnl Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf