configure.ac: Escape plan for old Nettle without pkg-config dropping.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 66d3dfc367e7c89a6752281ad4e80eb768d8d07c..6c76e24f6ae975a7a0782da7010ef2f72093a8f5 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -37,7 +37,16 @@ dnl--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl C programming environment.
 
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([mLib], [mLib >= 2.1.0])
 dnl C programming environment.
 
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([mLib], [mLib >= 2.1.0])

-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([nettle], [nettle >= 2.4])
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([nettle], [nettle >= 2.4], [], [
+  ## That didn't work; unfortunately older Nettle packages don't have a
+  ## pkg-config dropping.  Let's see whether it will work anyway.
+  nettlep=t
+  AC_CHECK_HEADER([nettle/sha.h], [], [nettlep=nil])
+  AC_CHECK_LIB([nettle], [nettle_sha256_init], [], [nettlep=nil])
+  case $nettlep in
+    nil) AC_MSG_ERROR([Failed to find Nettle library.]) ;;
+  esac
+  NETTLE_CFLAGS= NETTLE_LIBS=-lnettle])

 
 dnl--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl Perl programming environment.
 
 dnl--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl Perl programming environment.