Hi Vincent, * Vincent Torri wrote on Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:27:37AM CET: > > I would like to kow how autoreconf works. The best way to find that out would be to read both its documentation and its source. :) (the perl script isn't that unreadable) For example, for invoking aclocal it uses ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in $top_srcdir/Makefile.am. For another example, it looks for the macros AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, and AM_GNU_GETTEXT in configure.ac, to decide which tools to run. > More precisely, I would like to know how it knows which options have > already been passed a previous call of configure. Oh, most likely that wasn't autoreconf at all, but ./config.status --recheck ./config.status what you were seeing. Take a look at ./config.status --version to find out how the previous configure run was done. > I ask that because I use configure to initialize some files, these latter > being used by a Makefile. And I would like to do the same thing than > autoreconf in that Makefile. This may be a different question yet, if I understand correctly. Are you looking for AC_CONFIG_FILES or AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS maybe? Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
