Checking if Octave was linked a library?

[David Bateman]

soren at hauberg.org wrote:
> Hi,
>   Is there a way (from Octave) to test if Octave was linked against a 
> specific library? Specifically, I'm not linking against QHull and HDF 
> at work, which causes some failures during 'make check'. So, I'd like 
> to patch the tests to only run if Octave was actually linked against 
> the corresponding library.
>
> Søren
>
>
>
%!testif HAVE_QHULL
%!  ## Put the QHULL specific test here!!!

%!testif HAVE_HDF5
%! ## Put the hdf5 specific test here

I added this feature a while back because of complaints of failing tests 
for the sparse code when people didn't link against the right libraries.

D.

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