dnl Borut Razem dnl dnl This macro checks for the presence of the readline library. dnl It works also in cross-compilation environment. dnl dnl To get it into the aclocal.m4 dnl file, do this: dnl aclocal -I . --verbose dnl dnl The --verbose will show all of the files that are searched dnl for .m4 macros. AC_DEFUN([wi_LIB_READLINE], [ dnl check for the readline.h header file AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/readline.h) if test "$ac_cv_header_readline_readline_h" = yes; then dnl check the readline version cat > conftest.$ac_ext < #include wi_LIB_READLINE_VERSION RL_VERSION_MAJOR RL_VERSION_MINOR EOF wi_READLINE_VERSION=$($CPP $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext | sed -n -e "s/^wi_LIB_READLINE_VERSION *\([[0-9\]][[0-9\]]*\) *\([[0-9\]][[0-9\]]*\)$/\1.\2/p") rm -rf conftest* if test -n "$wi_READLINE_VERSION"; then wi_MAJOR=$(expr $wi_READLINE_VERSION : '\([[0-9]][[0-9]]*\)\.') wi_MINOR=$(expr $wi_READLINE_VERSION : '[[0-9]][[0-9]]*\.\([[0-9]][[0-9]]*$\)') if test $wi_MINOR -lt 10; then wi_MINOR=$(expr $wi_MINOR \* 10) fi wi_READLINE_VERSION=$(expr $wi_MAJOR \* 100 + $wi_MINOR) else wi_READLINE_VERSION=-1 fi dnl check for the readline library ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS" # Note: $LIBCURSES is permitted to be empty. for LIBREADLINE in "-lreadline.dll" "-lreadline" "-lreadline $LIBCURSES" "-lreadline -ltermcap" "-lreadline -lncurses" "-lreadline -lcurses" do AC_MSG_CHECKING([for GNU Readline library $LIBREADLINE]) LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS $LIBREADLINE" AC_TRY_LINK([ /* includes */ #include #include ],[ /* function-body */ int dummy = rl_completion_append_character; /* rl_completion_append_character appeared in version 2.1 */ readline(NULL); ],[ wi_cv_lib_readline=yes AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) ],[ wi_cv_lib_readline=no AC_MSG_RESULT(no) ]) if test "$wi_cv_lib_readline" = yes; then AC_SUBST(LIBREADLINE) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_LIBREADLINE, $wi_READLINE_VERSION, [Readline]) break fi done LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS" fi ])