Re: AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com> writes:
> How do you configure a package with GLib now that the AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0
> Autoconf macro does not work anymore?

Well, you could wait for it to get fixed, which will happen
eventually. ;-)

A short-term workaround is just some configure.in code like this:

#
# Find pkg-config
#
AC_PATH_PROG(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config, no)
if test x$PKG_CONFIG = xno ; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([*** pkg-config not found])
fi

# Check glib

AC_MSG_CHECKING(GLib flags)
GLIB_PKGS='glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gthread-2.0'
if $PKG_CONFIG --exists $GLIB_PKGS; then
        GLIB_CFLAGS=`$PKG_CONFIG --cflags $GLIB_PKGS`
        GLIB_LIBS=`$PKG_CONFIG --libs $GLIB_PKGS`
        AC_SUBST(GLIB_LIBS)
        AC_SUBST(GLIB_CFLAGS)

        AC_MSG_RESULT($GLIB_CFLAGS $GLIB_LIBS)
else
        AC_MSG_ERROR([
*** GLib not found. GLib is required.
])
fi        

You can probably see from that how to replace glib-2.0 with
gtk+-2.0, etc.

Also, pkg-config has tests other than --exists, such as
--atleast-version, if you want to use those (since GTK 1.3.x breaks
with every version, you are probably well-advised to use
--exact-version).

Havoc