Re: Checking for interpreter libraries

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:21:14PM +0200, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
> I want to find out if there is any autoconf macros for checking for  
> the presence of various scripting language interpreters, and the
> libraries for extending/embedding them.

I don't think there is an instant support for this.

> [...] in particular Perl and Python.

Gnumeric, the GNU spreadsheet, supports scripting in both perl and python,
thus the autodetection in its configure.in might inspire you.
Download it from:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnumeric/configure.in?rev=.


Then there is macro AM_PATH_PYTHON in Automake, but I don't think it
deals with embedding.  Yet it might be inspiring.
(See file m4/python.m4 in the Automake source tree; currently, it is
identical as my /usr/share/aclocal-1.9/python.m4 from Automake 1.9.6.
There was no non-trivial change since the release 1.9.4.)

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal