On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Ben Pfaff wrote:
If your advice is correct, then any use of AC_RUN_IFELSE (if any libraries are added to LIBS) must be incorrect, because Autoconf does not have the correct knowledge to run a program. It's hard for me to believe that, because the Autoconf manual only mentions problems with AC_RUN_IFELSE when cross-compiling and doesn't say anything about other pitfalls.
There are many pitfalls associated with running a program. If you do choose to validate that a program will actually run from the build directory with the currently installed libraries, then you need to be prepared for dealing with the pitfalls. :-)
Most configure scripts don't seem to try to run programs. The configure script for my package does run a program for one of its tests.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
