[Libvir] Please check my autoconf libvirt.m4

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:31:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Attached is an autoconf snippet which allows you to check that the 
> >libvirt library is installed (not necessarily development headers 
> >though) and check the version number.
> >
> >If any autoconf experts (hello, Mark) would like to check it makes 
> >sense, that'd be great.
> 
> I should add that I use it like this:
> 
>   dnl Check for libvirt, sets LIBVIRT_VERSION.
>   AC_LIBVIRT
> 
>   dnl Libvirt must be >= 0.2.1
>   AC_MSG_CHECKING([libvirt >= 0.2.1])
>   if test $LIBVIRT_VERSION -ge 2001; then
>      AC_MSG_RESULT([ok])
>   else
>      AC_MSG_ERROR([please upgrade your libvirt library])
>   fi

I don't see that this buys us much over just doing

  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBVIRT, libvirt >= 0.2.1)
  AC_SUBST(LIBVIRT_CFLAGS)
  AC_SUBST(LIBVIRT_LIBS)

which already works...

Regards,
Dan.
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