[Spread-users] [PATCH] pkgconfig file for libspread

[Hisham H M]

Hello,

I'm just getting started with Spread and I'm enjoying it so far.

As I approached integrating the client library with my autoconf
scripts, I found it simpler to add a .pc file to the Spread
distribution rather than diving in the autoconf macros for library
search.

The attached patch adds a libspread.pc to the Spread distribution,
which is generated at build time and installed along with libspread. I
put it in the libspread directory since I figured that for
installations that build only the client library, I could do "make -C
libspread install" instead of installing the whole thing. This way I
get only libraries, headers and the .pc file installed.

With this patch, using the client library in other autoconf-based
projects can be done somewhat like this:

#------------------------------------
AC_ARG_WITH([libspread], [  --with-libspread=PREFIX     Location of
libspread, the Spread client library],
            [PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$with_libspread/lib/pkgconfig],[])
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

LIBSPREADFOUND=no
PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBSPREAD,libspread >= 4.1,LIBSPREADFOUND=yes)
if ! test x$LIBSPREADFOUND = xyes; then
        echo
        echo "Failed."
        echo "Libspread and its devel headers are required."
        exit 1
fi
#------------------------------------

Thanks,

-- Hisham
ps: I'm not currently subscribed to the list, so please cc: me on any replies.
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