[Coin-discuss] Re: AC_COIN_HAS_USER_LIBRARY

[Andreas Waechter]

> Hello again.  We are configuring COIN from within another
> autoconf'd package, and I found that by adding -lpthread
> to my --with-cplex-lib option and being careful with
> quoting, that I was able to get COIN to configure
> successfully without the macro change.

Ok - we got to the some conclusion.

> But I think that if a user sets the LIBS variable,
> you are supposed to use it in your tests, aren't you?

Maybe...  Well, didn't set it up that way.  If you would like to have this 
changed, please submit a ticket for BuildTools at

https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/

But I can't promise that I will change that soon...

Thanks

Andreas


>
> Lee Ann Fisk
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:09 -0600, Lee Ann Fisk wrote:
>> Hello.  I was unable to build COIN with the Cplex library
>> without modifying this m4 macro.  I needed to add a
>> pthreads library to get the compilation in this test:
>>
>> AC_COIN_HAS_USER_LIBRARY([Cplex],[CPX],[cplex.h],[CPXgetstat])
>>
>> to work.  I added LIBS=-lpthread to my configure
>> command line, but the macro ignores it.  When I
>> changed:
>>
>> LIBS="$$2LIB $ADDLIBS"
>>
>> to
>>
>> LIBS="$$2LIB $ADDLIBS $coin_save_LIBS"
>>
>> in the macro, the test passed.
>>
>> Could this test be changed to respect the LIBS
>> environment variable?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Lee Ann Fisk
>>
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