There is a project using protobuf as an option of serialization protocol, but not all the users have protobuf installed. The solution I'm using now is to use AC_CHECK_LIB[(protobuf)] in configure.ac, and if HAVE_PROTOBUF AM_LDFLAGS += -lprotobuf endif in Makefile.am.
What I want to do now is something like ./bootstrap.sh --enable-protobuf. Let the user to define whether include the protobuf or not, Is that possible?
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Yes, but I think it's rather painful with autotools. Have you considered leaving autotools and using cmake or scons instead? – arne Aug 23 '13 at 08:50
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Is that very complicated by autotools? If yes, I'll consider about the tools you mentioned. – nzomkxia Aug 23 '13 at 09:06
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1Nah, it's not extremely complicated, but I think it's very, very ugly. – arne Aug 23 '13 at 09:07
