Question: Should we AC_CHECK_LIB the "prefix", "libname" or "linkname"?

[jimklimov]

Stumbled upon this line while sanitizing some project that has dashes and underscores mixed up in the name :

zproject/zproject_autotools.gsl

Line 770 in c1725c6

AC_CHECK_LIB([$(use.prefix)], [$(use.test:)],

        AC_CHECK_LIB([$(use.prefix)], [$(use.test:)],
            [
                was_$(use.project:c)_check_lib_detected=yes
                PKGCFG_LIBS_PRIVATE="$PKGCFG_LIBS_PRIVATE -l$(use.linkname)"
.       if optional
                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_$(USE.AM_LIB_MACRO), 1, [The optional $(use.libname) library is to be used (as -l$(use.linkname))])
            ],
            [])

I do not know (yet) if it causes any problems, but the discrepancy raised a flag for me so recording here ;-)

[bluca]

probably the linkname

[stephan57160]

Similar issues with Android, in different places.