Re: AC_SEARCH_LIBS for GSL fails with -lgslcblas

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Brian Gough wrote:

> At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:54:33 +0200,
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > It would be prudent and good style if GSL offered to its users a  
> > macro
> > or a couple, say gsl_CHECK_GSL that would check for presence of the
> > library (and needed libs) and headers.  Maybe even add a switch
> > --with-gsl[=PREFIX] or so.  And the best thing is: such a thing  
> > already
> > exists: on my Debian system it's at /usr/share/aclocal/gsl.m4 and  
> > part
> > of the package libgsl0, the macro is named AM_PATH_GSL (too bad it
> > invades Automake name space...).
>
> Can you tell me what the recommeded form for the name should be?  I
> will change it. Thanks.

It shouldn't match _?A[SCHUMT]_.* or _?LT_.*

AFAIK:
AS_* = m4sh/m4sugar
AC_* = autoconf
AH_* = autoheader
AU_* = autoupdate
AM_* = automake
AT_* = autotest
LT_* = libtool

When beginning with an `_' they are used for internal names.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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