On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Rishi Agrawal<rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Rishi Agrawal<rishi.b.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > I am using this particular line: >> > >> > AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlParseFile,,AC_MSG_ERROR(oops! no function >> > xmlParseFile >> > function in xml?!?),) in my configure.in for autoconf >> >> You can try something like below too ... it doesn't depend on any >> particular function. >> >> /tmp/test> ./configure >> checking for gcc... gcc >> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out >> checking whether the C compiler works... yes >> checking whether we are cross compiling... no >> checking for suffix of executables... >> checking for suffix of object files... o >> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes >> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes >> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed >> checking for -pkg-config... no >> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config >> checking for libxml2... yes >> configure: creating ./config.status >> >> >> /tmp/test> cat configure.ac >> # -*- Autoconf -*- >> # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. >> >> AC_PREREQ([2.63]) >> AC_INIT(["Sample test package"], ["1.1.0"], ["mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx"]) >> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([a.c]) >> >> AC_PROG_CC >> >> AC_PATH_PROGS([PACKAGE_CONFIG], [$host_alias-pkg-config pkg-config], >> [none]) >> if test "x$PACKAGE_CONFIG" = "xnone"; then >> AC_MSG_ERROR([*** pkg-config, needed to check for libxml2 existence >> has not been found.]) >> fi >> >> AC_MSG_CHECKING(for libxml2) >> >> if $PACKAGE_CONFIG libxml-2.0 --libs > /dev/null 2>&1; then >> AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) >> else >> AC_MSG_RESULT(no) >> fi >> >> AC_OUTPUT >> >> ===================================== >> >> Thanks - >> Manish >> >> > >> > The use of macro is >> > >> > AC_CHECK_LIB : Checks whether a function exists in the given library >> > (library names without the leading lib, e.g., for libxml, use just xml >> > here) >> > >> > It seems that it is not path dependant. >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Rishi B. Agrawal >> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rishibagrawal >> > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks - >> Manish > > > > I will try this and reply Hi Rishi, Did you get a chance to try this ? Did it help ? 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
