On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Rishi Agrawal<rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Rishi >> Agrawal<rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rishi Agrawal >> > <rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Mulyadi Santosa >> >> <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On 7/17/09, Rishi Agrawal <rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> > Is autoconfigure the only way to find this out.?? >> >>> > >> >>> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Pei Lin <telent997@xxxxxxxxx> >> >>> > wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Please don't do top posting... >> >>> >> >>> Although it's OOT, I can help a bit. IMO, you can directly check >> >>> /usr/lib or parse /etc/ld.so.conf and so on to find the related DSO >> >>> and header files. However, doing that will require more time and >> >>> probably not portable across system, in fact it's kinda reinventing >> >>> the wheel. >> >>> >> >>> So, I personally suggest to adopt autoconfigure. >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> regards, >> >>> >> >>> Mulyadi Santosa >> >>> Freelance Linux trainer >> >>> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com >> >> >> >> >> >> I will have a detailed look at the autoconfigure utility and see. >> >> >> >> Thanks for all the help. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Rishi B. Agrawal >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal >> >> http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ >> > >> > >> > I have used it and it is working very good. >> > >> > I wanted to know that >> > >> > How to check the presence of libxml2 library using autoconfigure ? >> >> First link in google. >> >> >> http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=3.0/doc/tutorial_autoconf.html >> >> Thanks - >> Manish >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Rishi B. Agrawal >> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal >> > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks - >> Manish > > Actually I tried using that information earlier but somehow it did not work. Can you please tell us a little more why it didn't work ? Any errors or anything else ?? > > Currently I am using a macro which checks wether a function is present in > the mentioned library. I didn't understand this ? are you using something like nm ?? > > like printf can be checked in libc > > I used a function "xmlParsefile" and "libxml2" library and this works fine. > The logic behind this is that when the function is present in the library > then the library is also present on the system (is it correct ??) Should be... but by any chance are you relying the library to be present in a particular path ?? If that's the case it is not going to work anywhere ? Thanks - Manish > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Rishi B. Agrawal > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ > -- Thanks - Manish -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ