Question about detecting LD

[Kevin Cozens]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> We're looking to detect if a particular function is available, and the
> easiest way of testing for this seems to be to have autoconf/configure
> generate a C program consisting of a call to that function
> (PQisthreadsafe()).

The autoconf/configure tools would be the way to deal with detecting the 
proper linker and options for the various systems you may be targetting.
If you haven't already done so, take a look at libtool. A quick check of 
docs about it indicate it may have the additional tests you require.
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