* m4/vlc.m4 configure.ac:

    + Moved the shared object suffix detection to vlc.m4.
    + Replaced AX_* macros with VLC_* macros.

HACKING

-$Id: HACKING,v 1.10 2003/07/07 17:01:16 sam Exp $
+$Id$
 
 Hacking vlc
 ===========
@@ -66,6 +66,6 @@ To add a module to the repository, just add its sources to a Modules.am
 file. If you create a new Modules.am, do not forget to add a corresponding
 Makefile line at the end of configure.ac.
 
-To have the module built, you need to add a call to AX_ADD_PLUGINS or
-AX_ADD_BUILTINS to configure.ac with your new module name as argument.
+To have the module built, you need to add a call to VLC_ADD_PLUGINS or
+VLC_ADD_BUILTINS to configure.ac with your new module name as argument.
 

bootstrap

@@ -133,20 +133,20 @@ fi
 rm -f m4/private.m4-tmp1 && cat > m4/private.m4-tmp1 << EOF
 dnl  The required AM_CONDITIONAL calls
 dnl  XXX: too many conditionals make the build very slow, disabled them
-AC_DEFUN([AX_VLC_CONDITIONALS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_CONDITIONALS], [
 EOF
 rm -f m4/private.m4-tmp2 && cat > m4/private.m4-tmp2 << EOF
 dnl  The required AC_SUBST calls
-AC_DEFUN([AX_VLC_SUBSTS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_SUBSTS], [
 EOF
 rm -f m4/private.m4-tmp3 && cat > m4/private.m4-tmp3 << EOF
 dnl  The required AC_OUTPUT calls
 dnl  XXX: this feature is only supported starting from automake-1.7
-AC_DEFUN([AX_VLC_MAKEFILES], [AC_OUTPUT([
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_MAKEFILES], [AC_OUTPUT([
 EOF
 rm -f m4/private.m4-tmp4 && cat > m4/private.m4-tmp4 << EOF
 dnl  Helper macro for vlc-config generation
-AC_DEFUN([AX_VLC_CONFIG_HELPER], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_CONFIG_HELPER], [
   cat >> vlc-config.in << BLAH
 EOF
 

m4/vlc.m4

 dnl  Macros needed for VLC
-dnl  $Id: vlc.m4,v 1.6 2003/07/17 15:49:37 sam Exp $
+dnl  $Id$
 
-dnl  Add plugins or builtins
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_BUILTINS], [
+dnl ===========================================================================
+dnl  Macros to add plugins or builtins and handle their flags
+
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_BUILTINS], [
   BUILTINS="${BUILTINS} $1"
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_PLUGINS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_PLUGINS], [
   PLUGINS="${PLUGINS} $1"
 ])
 
-dnl  Save and restore default flags
-AC_DEFUN([AX_SAVE_FLAGS], [
-  CPPFLAGS_save="${CPPFLAGS}"
-  CFLAGS_save="${CFLAGS}"
-  CXXFLAGS_save="${CXXFLAGS}"
-  OBJCFLAGS_save="${OBJCFLAGS}"
-  LDFLAGS_save="${LDFLAGS}"
-])
-
-AC_DEFUN([AX_RESTORE_FLAGS], [
-  CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS_save}"
-  CFLAGS="${CFLAGS_save}"
-  CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS_save}"
-  OBJCFLAGS="${OBJCFLAGS_save}"
-  LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS_save}"
-])
-
 dnl  Special cases: vlc, pics, plugins, save
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_CPPFLAGS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_CPPFLAGS], [
   for element in [$1]; do
     eval "CPPFLAGS_${element}="'"$'"{CPPFLAGS_${element}} $2"'"'
     am_modules_with_cppflags="${am_modules_with_cppflags} ${element}"
   done
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_CFLAGS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_CFLAGS], [
   for element in [$1]; do
     eval "CFLAGS_${element}="'"$'"{CFLAGS_${element}} $2"'"'
     am_modules_with_cflags="${am_modules_with_cflags} ${element}"
   done
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_CXXFLAGS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_CXXFLAGS], [
   for element in [$1]; do
     eval "CXXFLAGS_${element}="'"$'"{CXXFLAGS_${element}} $2"'"'
     am_modules_with_cxxflags="${am_modules_with_cxxflags} ${element}"
   done
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_OBJCFLAGS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_OBJCFLAGS], [
   for element in [$1]; do
     eval "OBJCFLAGS_${element}="'"$'"{OBJCFLAGS_${element}} $2"'"'
     am_modules_with_objcflags="${am_modules_with_objcflags} ${element}"
   done
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_ADD_LDFLAGS], [
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_ADD_LDFLAGS], [
   for element in [$1]; do
     eval "LDFLAGS_${element}="'"'"$2 "'$'"{LDFLAGS_${element}} "'"'
     am_modules_with_ldflags="${am_modules_with_ldflags} ${element}"
   done
 ])
 
-AC_DEFUN([AX_OUTPUT_VLC_CONFIG_IN], [
+dnl ===========================================================================
+dnl  Macros to save and restore default flags
+
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_SAVE_FLAGS], [
+  CPPFLAGS_save="${CPPFLAGS}"
+  CFLAGS_save="${CFLAGS}"
+  CXXFLAGS_save="${CXXFLAGS}"
+  OBJCFLAGS_save="${OBJCFLAGS}"
+  LDFLAGS_save="${LDFLAGS}"
+])
+
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_RESTORE_FLAGS], [
+  CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS_save}"
+  CFLAGS="${CFLAGS_save}"
+  CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS_save}"
+  OBJCFLAGS="${OBJCFLAGS_save}"
+  LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS_save}"
+])
+
+dnl ===========================================================================
+dnl  Helper macro to generate the vlc-config.in file
+
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_OUTPUT_VLC_CONFIG_IN], [
 
   AC_MSG_RESULT(configure: creating ./vlc-config.in)
 
@@ -116,10 +123,33 @@ AC_DEFUN([AX_OUTPUT_VLC_CONFIG_IN], [
   sed -ne '/#@1@#/,/#@2@#/p' < "${srcdir}/vlc-config.in.in" \
    | sed -e '/#@.@#/d' >> vlc-config.in
 
-  AX_VLC_CONFIG_HELPER
+  VLC_CONFIG_HELPER
 
   dnl  '/#@2@#/,${/#@.@#/d;p}' won't work on OS X
   sed -ne '/#@2@#/,$p' < "${srcdir}/vlc-config.in.in" \
    | sed -e '/#@.@#/d' >> vlc-config.in
 ])
 
+dnl ===========================================================================
+dnl  Macros for shared object handling (TODO)
+
+AC_DEFUN([VLC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX], [
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING(for shared objects suffix)
+  case "${target_os}" in
+    darwin*)
+      LIBEXT=".dylib"
+      ;;
+    *mingw32* | *cygwin*)
+      LIBEXT=".dll"
+      ;;
+    hpux*)
+      LIBEXT=".sl"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      LIBEXT=".so"
+      ;;
+  esac
+  AC_MSG_RESULT(${LIBEXT})
+  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(LIBEXT, "${LIBEXT}", [Dynamic object extension])
+])
+