Re: external libs and headers

[Bruce Korb]

"Grobe, Gary" wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for info on how to link to external libs and add default header
> paths to the autoconf system. I've got a project that successfully runs
> autoconf and configure and starts to compile.
> 
> I started looking through the autoconf manual but didn't see anything that
> sticks out for doing this (then I may have missed it with all that detail).

Library existence and functionality testing can be done with:

  http://autogen.sourceforge.net/conftest.html

Filling in the "withlib" form.

For arbitrary headers, this:

  Generic Headers: How to find other headers 

can be found in http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf