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From: | Dan Kegel |
Subject: | Re: autoconf && hardware |
Date: | Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:27:18 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3 |
Warren Young wrote:
Dirk wrote:how can i make autoconf probe for a parallel port?Any particular OS, or "all of them"? :)On a Linux box, I'd probably dig around in /proc to find a way to list parallel ports and then write the shell code necessary to make sure the /proc entry exists and contains the expected info.
You might consider checking for that kind of thing at runtime instead. I used to check for /dev/poll at configure time, but (especially when cross-compiling!) that got me in trouble. I now check at runtime and am much happier. - Dan
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