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Re: Flexibly building against third-party libraries (RPM_CHECK_LIB)

From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
Date: Wed 20 Jun 2007 - 23:46:58 CEST
Message-Id: <200706202346.59573.arekm@pld-linux.org>
On Wednesday 20 of June 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007, Jay Soffian wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >> +  [external:internal:none], [beecrypt],
> >> +  [], [ AC_ERROR([mandatory BeeCrypt library not found]) ])
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> +  [external:internal:none], [file:src:src],
> >> +  ], [ AC_ERROR([mandatory File (magic) library not found]) ])
> >
> > Should these be [external:internal:abort] ?
>
> Yes, you're right. BeeCrypt and File are de-facto not really optional.
> The code base currently does not allow us to keep them out. Now fixed.
> Thanks for the feedback.

btw. can this macro be more verbose (logging things to config.log) ?

Right now from config.log:

configure:27985: error: unable to find available BeeCrypt library

but why it told so, you have to guess and digg.


>                                        Ralf S. Engelschall
>                                        rse@engelschall.com
>                                        www.engelschall.com

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Received on Wed Jun 20 23:52:15 2007
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