Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Bruce Korb wrote: > > > > Why not just incorporate some variation on the "prefix" macro > > that modifies the names of all the #define-d macros? > > > > my-config.h : config.h > > sed 's/^#define /#define MY_/' config.h > $@ > > > > Install "my-config.h". Simple. Effective. Auto-somethingorother > > ought to be configurable to insert the prefix on its own, but this > > isn't exactly rocket science, either. > > There is more involved since it seems that the source code (at least > the headers) needs to be updated to understand the MY_ variant of the > defines. Yes, of course. > Additional Makefile rules would need to be added to ensure > that my-config.h is created before any compilation takes place. I think all the compile dependency stuff is already handled. "my-config.h" would need to be listed in the BUILT_SOURCES macro though (in automake-speak).