Autotools: Including a prebuilt 3rd party library?

The autotools are not a package management system, and attempting to put that type of functionality in is a bad idea. Rather than incorporating the third party library into your distribution, you should simply have the configure script check for its existence and abort if the required library is not available. The onus is on the user to satisfy the dependency.

You can then release a binary package that will allow the user to use the package management system to simplify dependency resolution.

I figured out how to make this happen. First I switched to a non recursive make. Next I made the following changes to configure.Am as per this page openismus.com/documents/linux/using_libr... AC_ARG_WITH(oci-include-path, AS_HELP_STRING(--with-oci-include-path, location of the oci headers, defaults to lib/oci), OCI_CFLAGS="-$withval", OCI_CFLAGS="-Ilib/oci") AC_SUBST(OCI_CFLAGS) AC_ARG_WITH(oci-lib-path, AS_HELP_STRING(--with-oci-lib-path, location of the oci libraries, defaults to lib/oci), OCI_LIBS="-L$withval -lclntsh -lnnz11", OCI_LIBS='-L.

/lib/oci -lclntsh -lnnz11') AC_SUBST(OCI_LIBS) In the Makefile. Am you then use the following lines (assuming a binary named foo) foo_CPPFLAGS = $(OCI_CFLAGS) foo_LDADD = libnavycommon.La $(OCI_LIBS) ocidir = $(libdir) oci_DATA = lib/oci/URL4.11.1 \ lib/oci/libnnz11. So \ lib/oci/URL5.11.1 \ lib/oci/libociicus.

So \ lib/oci/libocijdbc11.so.

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