Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure: check for argp

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/19/2015 09:58 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> argp is only present in the GNU C library, so add a specific check for it in
> configure. Also check if -largp is needed for linking against it.
> 
> Please run autoconf after applying.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  config/Tools.mk.in      | 1 +
>  tools/configure.ac      | 4 ++++
>  tools/xentrace/Makefile | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/config/Tools.mk.in b/config/Tools.mk.in
> index aef9ed6..9bd5f6c 100644
> --- a/config/Tools.mk.in
> +++ b/config/Tools.mk.in
> @@ -78,5 +78,6 @@ CONFIG_GCRYPT       := @libgcrypt@
>  EXTFS_LIBS          := @EXTFS_LIBS@
>  CURSES_LIBS         := @CURSES_LIBS@
>  TINFO_LIBS          := @TINFO_LIBS@
> +ARGP_LDFLAGS        := @argp_ldflags@
>  
>  FILE_OFFSET_BITS    := @FILE_OFFSET_BITS@
> diff --git a/tools/configure.ac b/tools/configure.ac
> index 1a06ddf..5eb4799 100644
> --- a/tools/configure.ac
> +++ b/tools/configure.ac
> @@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB([yajl], [yajl_alloc], [],
>  AC_CHECK_LIB([z], [deflateCopy], [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find zlib])])
>  AC_CHECK_LIB([iconv], [libiconv_open], [libiconv="y"], [libiconv="n"])
>  AC_SUBST(libiconv)
> +AC_CHECK_HEADER([argp.h], [
> +AC_CHECK_LIB([argp], [argp_usage], [argp_ldflags="-largp"])
> +], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find argp])])
> +AC_SUBST(argp_ldflags)

Sorry if my config-fu isn't very good:  Is this basically requiring the
user to have argp available at configure time?  Does this make it more
difficult to build on BSDs?  Or is it just a matter of adding one more
library to the already long list of dependencies?

 -George


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