Re: Autoconf macros for various libraries.

[Jules Colding]

On 23/06/2008, at 09.44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Jules Colding wrote on Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:40:03AM CEST:
> > I've written these two meager macros that checks for ACE and TAO:
> >
> >   http://trac.42tools.net/lorica/browser/trunk/m4/acetao.m4
>
> In these macros, you check for several dozen headers, which is very
> expensive.  Is that really necessary?  Can't you pick some "key"
> headers?

Unfortunately no. They are scattered all over the place with no  
central "ace.h" and/or "tao.h" to use. It is more of a collection of  
ACE and TAO parts than a coherent whole.


> Alternatively, write a manual compile/link check that includes
> several headers at once so that you verify the presence of all of them
> with only a few compiles?

That, on the other hand, seems like a good approach.

Thanks,
  jules