> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:14:44PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > > Of course some hacks are possible: > > > 1) fiddle with ac_args before AC_OUTPUT. > > > Of course this solution may easily break with future versions of autoconf. > > > > > > 2) Read what AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS does (how it propagates the arguments), and > > > do the same in configure.ac > > > > > > 3) Simply call the embedded configure, and add features from > > > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS only when someone asks for it. > ... > > These answers are all very helpful. However, I'm wondering if there is a > > simple way of sending the --disable-shared option to AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS > > in a way that will be good with future versions of autoconf. > > I don't know about any documented way. Any of the above options can be simple. > > > Just wondering if this feature is supported by autoconf? > > That's the hard part. > No, I don't think this is available from documented options. > Autoconf and, more importantly, its documentation would have to be enhanced > to support this. Do you feel like writing a patch to this effect? > > But a simple hack is much simpler. Well, I modified the configure script that came with readline to set the default for shared libs to be NULL. This solves my problem. However, if you could guide me in a general purpose way, I would not mind adding a feature like this to autoconf. > And remember, the developpers run autoconf to build the tarball. The users > should just build from this tarball, without any need for Autotools installed. > So it doesn't mind _that_ much if you are not portabale to other versions of > Autoconf. Yeah, this goes double for me, since I put the autoconf files in CVS. Thanks for all your help, Bob Rossi _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
