On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:30, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > >You confuse me. The purpose of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is to pass the > >configure arguments to subordinate configures (e.g. --prefix) so that > >as long as each subproject follows the same GNU-standard rules, the > >binaries should install into the same directory. > > > > > > > I know, but AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS calls an existing configure script in the > subproject directory > if it exists right?, Yes, > but if it doesn't it throws up an error. Yes. > My > cuestion is, how can I generate subproject/configure > script at the same time when I generate the main configure script, so I > don't have to go into the subproject > directory and run autoconf/automake. You are supposed to cd to the subproject and run autoconf/automake etc. there, i.e. the steps you don't want to do are the nominal procedure. Some projects try to automate this by using a manually written script, in most cases called autogen.sh or bootstrap. In case all of your configure scripts and Makefiles are compatible to using the same versions of autoconf/automake etc. you alternatively can try to use "autoreconf" in the toplevel directory. But beware, autoreconf can be dangerous and doesn't always work. Ralf