Hello Joao, * Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:00:48PM CEST: > > Is this something I could/should do globally ???
Yes. > for example, I also have these: > > - AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h sys/socket.h) > - AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket htons) > - AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlParseDoc,,AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot link to libxml2])) If I would write example code for the manual, I'd write above like this: AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h sys/socket.h]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS([socket htons]) AC_CHECK_LIB([xml2], [xmlParseDoc], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot link to libxml2])]) but quoting arguments that actually contain macros themselves is the most important bit: AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h sys/socket.h) AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket htons) AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlParseDoc,, [AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot link to libxml2])]) > could/should I quote it all ? I'm quite used to quoting in Perl... is > this somewhat similar ? See the manual for details: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/M4-Quotation.html> Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
