Re: Auto(conf|make) style questions

[tomas@fabula.de]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:39:12AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> tomas@fabula.de writes:
> 
> >   - AC_LIBOBJ passes the extra objects through $(LIBOBJS). That
> >   means that I can only do it globally, not for a specific
> >   binary. Is there another way?
> 
> Offhand, I don't think so. [...]

Thanks, Rob. Your answera are always very helpful.

> I ran in to a similar problem with the config.h fixes [...]

Yuck. I keep asking myself wyh those things have to be so messy.

> Unless you can't, or there's some limitation I'm not thinking of, I
> probably still be more likely to use #if guile version testing:
> 
>   #if GUILE_MAJOR_VERSION >= ... && GUILE_MINOR_VERSION ...
> 
> though if I wanted more specific, per-function testing, I guess I
> might test for the features in configure.in and then stick a "#define
> GNEON_NEEDS_SCM_C_STRING2STR 1" into a public config header (but not
> config.h, unless you don't need the symbol publically).
> 
> Alternately, you could centralize the version info in a header, but
> still have per-issue defines:
> 
>   #if GUILE_MAJOR_VERSION >= ... && GUILE_MINOR_VERSION ...
>   # define GNEON_NEEDS_SCM_C_STRING2STR 1
>   # define GNEON_HAS_TO_CORRECT_FOR_GUILE_CRUFT_BAR 1
>   #endif

Yup. It's the old ``version test versus feature test'' issue. I'll
prepare another post on that.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Regards
-- tomas