Use autoconf to find -linnstorage etc., and link statically

[innduct.git] / configure.ac

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4c9a08f97c6e697a9400c85303b893b18a793b2b..4f7c559c10bcee6f4bcd653450b28aa1302ffb8b 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -28,8 +28,29 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([])
 
 AC_PROG_CC
 
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/lib/news"
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/inotify.h)
 
+LIBS="-Wl,-Bdynamic $LIBS"
+
+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)])
+])
+
+# 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,
+# and that it is automatically included in link lines by automake
+# so nothing is needed in Makefile.am.)
+LIBS="-Wl,-Bstatic $LIBS"
+
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
 AC_OUTPUT