On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:27 +0000, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote, quoting Daniel Pekelharing: > >> Or is there someway I can tell autoconf to just ignore them? > > No, because autoconf isn't involved into compilation, that would > > be your makefiles, i.e. you will have to find a way inside of your > > makefiles if using pure autoconf. > > I do this, without using automake, by using Makefile.in constructs > such as: > > all: regular-stuff @conditional-stuff@ > : > > regular-stuff: > : > > conditional-stuff: > : > > then use an autoconf substitution for `@conditional-stuff@', such > that it is blank, when `conditional-stuff' is not required, and > names the `conditional-stuff' target when it is. Obviously, this > can be extended to multiple conditionals, ad-infinitum. Congratulations! You are about to reinvented AM_CONDITIONAL. ;) That's more or less how AM_CONDITIONAL internally works. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
