Re: Check lib on path

[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:07, Philip
Herron<address@hidden> wrote:
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> Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:44, Philip
>> Herron<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hey guys
>>>
>>> I have a project i am using GNU MP and MPFR for, and i am using:
>>>
>>> ACX_PTHREAD(,AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find libpthread))
>>> LIBS="${PTHREAD_LIBS} ${LIBS}" AM_CFLAGS="${PTHREAD_CFLAGS}
>>> ${AM_CFLAGS}" CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
>>>
>>> AC_CHECK_LIB([gmp], [__gmpz_init], , [AC_MSG_ERROR([GNU MP not
>>> found, see http://gmplib.org/])]) AC_CHECK_LIB([mpfr],[mpfr_init]
>>> , [AC_MSG_ERROR([MPFR not found, see http://www.mpfr.org/])])
>>>
>>> The pthreads comes from a macro acx_pthreads.m4 i think, but the
>>> gmp and mpfr are the problem, I have on a mac machine the
>>> libraries in /usr/local/lib and the headers in
>>> /usr/local/include, but on my bsd and linux machines its all in
>>> /usr
>>>
>>> The linux and bsd is ok with ac_check_lib, but on mac no, is
>>> there a way to pass the library path and header path? To give -I
>>> and -L to gcc or sun compilers ( i have only been using these
>>> compilers so far ) or whatever compiler.
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't seem to find anything on this.
>>>
>>
>> 1. Try to use -pthread compiler option (or analog, depends on
>> compiler) instead of linking around libpthread directly.  Sometime
>> the true name of thread library may be different.  Sometime systems
>> have more than one thread library.
>>
>> 2. IIRC, on Mac OS X you don't need any special library or flag at
>> all.  All pthread functionality is a part of libSystem (mac analog
>> of libc) and libpthread is just a symlink to it.
>
> My question wasn't on pthreads i'm using a macro i found for that:
> http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/ac-archive/acx_pthread.html
>
> But the mpfr and gmp libs are the problem, as they are in different
> paths on both systems. But thanks because i don't know mac os that
> well just have access to it for a while for some dev.
>

Sorry.  I didn't understand your needs.

Seems like your compiler doesn't search /usr/local/ hierarchy or its
analog (at least it is common case on FreeBSD).

I workaround it by following code:

    AC_CANONICAL_HOST

    # Workaround OS related problems in the default search path:
    #   o  FreeBSD bug: GCC on FreeBSD doesn't search
    #      /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib directories.
    #   o  MacOS X/Darwin problem: GCC on Darwin doesn't search
    #      /opt/local/include and /opt/local/lib directories.
    #
    case "$host_os" in
    freebsd*)
        CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include"
        LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib"
        ;;
    darwin*)
        CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/opt/local/include"
        LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/local/lib"
        ;;
    esac

    # ... AC_CHECK_LIB, AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_ waht you want

Hope, it will help.

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <address@hidden>