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Re: Finding a header


From: Daryl Lee
Subject: Re: Finding a header
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:45:49 -0700

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:25 -0800, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Daryl Lee wrote:
> > I am autoconfiscating a project involving other developers.  I need a
> > portable way of finding a header (it's an OpenGL header, glut.h, but
> > that's just a specific example).  On my machine, it's
> > in /usr/include/GL, but on other machines it may be elsewhere,
> > like /usr/include.  The  only thing I know to do is just list them in
> > AM_CPPFLAGS, and find them by trial and error.  That seems a tad kludgy
> > to me.  I expect I'll have a similar issue with libraries once I get
> > over this hurdle.
> 
> Hi Daryl,
> 
> There are two conventions generally available:
> 
>    ${package}-config cflags ; ${package}-config link|ldflags
> 
> sometimes, those arguments have a hyphen or two in front of them.
> See if OpenGL has one of these.   More recently, "pkg-config"
> has started becoming popular, but for now it must be a backup
> solution:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/

And, of course, if no ${package}.pc file exists, I'm out of luck, yes?

-- 
Daryl Lee
Open the Present--It's a Gift.





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