On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:34:05AM -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote: > AC_SUBST(TEMP_LARGE) > > But how do I use TEMP_LARGE when running my test program? Automake will generate a `TEMP_LARGE = @TEMP_LARGE@' line in each Makefile.in, so the value will be available to you as a macro in each Makefile. > I have tried running a test script, and using $TEMP_LARGE in the > script. This works if I supply TEMP_LARGE on the command line with the > make command, but it doesn't pick up the TEMP_LARGE defined during > configure. You need to get TEMP_LARGE into a shell variable in that script. There are a number of ways to do this. You could pass the variable through the environment from your Makefile: some-rule: TEMP_LARGE=$(TEMP_LARGE) ./test-script _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
