Hi All, I have a question about managing subdirectories with autoconf/automake. Our project contains several independent packages. For each package we have a subdirectory and each subdirectory has a configure script. >From the top level configure script the user should choose wether s/he wants to compile a specific package or not. e.g.: ./configure --enable-gui By now (and that solution works with autoconf-2.53 and automake-1.6.3) we use the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS macro in the top level configure.in file: if test "x$gui" = xtrue; then AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(Utilities GUI) else if test "x$model" = xtrue; then AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(Model) else AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(Utilities GUI Model) fi fi Trying the same code with autoconf-2.57 and automake-1.7.7 results in the following error when running automake: configure.in:29: error: `Utilities' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. /usr/local/src/autoconf/autoconf-2.57/lib/autoconf/status.m4:1073: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is expanded from... configure.in:29: the top level Is there a better/standard solution for our purpose ? With regards Kai -- http://echempp.sourceforge.net Kai Ludwig Universität Tübingen Institut für Organische Chemie Auf der Morgenstelle 18 D-72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/29-73049 Mail: kai.ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
