Keith Marshall <keith.d.marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello, > > I would like to implement a configure option which would have the effect of > > AC_DEFUN([MY_LANGUAGE_SET], > [AC_ARG_WITH([languages], > AS_HELP_STRING([--with-languages=LIST], > [install language files in LIST, a comma separated subset of '$1']), > [languages=$withval], > [languages=en])]) > > MY_LANGUAGE_SET([`cd lang; echo ?? | tr " " ,`]) > > and have the result of the command substitution > > `cd lang; echo ?? | tr " " ,` > > appear in the `configure --help' output. This won't do the right thing if configure is executed outside the source directory (for buiding in a separate directory). > Given these limitations, can anyone suggest a better mechanism for achieving > this objective? Use esyscmd to interpolate the output of the command at configure creation time. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
