Eric Lemings <lemings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Greetings, > > I have a tricky little problem I was hoping someone could > help me with. I am trying to write an Autotools macro that > extracts the value of a macro from a system header file > and defines another preprocessor macro with the same value. You can use AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to define a macro to the result of a shell substitution. You can easily extract the value from the output of the preprocessor. Don't use the output of a compiled program because that would make cross-compiling impossible. 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