-AC_INIT(innduct, 1.0)
-AC_PREREQ(2.50)
-AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(innduct.c)
-AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
+# innduct
+# tailing reliable realtime streaming feeder for inn
+# configure.ac
+#
+# Copyright Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+# and contributors; see LICENCE.txt.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+AC_INIT([innduct],[1.0],[ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk])
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(autoconf-aux)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([])
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/lib/news"
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/inotify.h)
+
+LIBS="-Wl,-Bdynamic $LIBS"
+
+# Possibly, we could link dynamically. But the ABI stability of
+# the inn libraries is questionable. On Debian only the .a files
+# are in inn2-dev. The .so's are in inn2.deb, which isn't depended on
+# by inn2-dev, and which doesn't have a # shlibs file for them.
+# So right now we can't sensibly link dynamically.
+#
+# So we pass -Bstatic.
+#
+# Recall that LIBS is generally *prepended* to. So we need to
+# temporarily put -Bstatic in LDFLAGS so that it ends up before
+# the actual libraries in the following tests.
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-Bstatic"
+
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(NNTPconnect, [inn], [],[
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([failed to find libinn])
+])
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(SMinit, [innstorage storage], [],[
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Failed to find INN storage library (-linnstorage, -lstorage)])
+])
+
+# Now move the -Bstatic to LIBS where it belongs.
+# LDFLAGS and LIBS are automatically included in link lines by automake
+# so nothing is needed in Makefile.am.)
+LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS% -Wl,-Bstatic}"
+LIBS="-Wl,-Bstatic $LIBS"
+
+AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT