-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Richard, > > * Richard Ash wrote on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:31:39PM CEST: >> I seem to have hit a fundamental problem with the way AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS >> that seems to make it most of the way to useless if you want to also use >> pkg-config. Basically, it runs the configure scripts in sub-directories >> after my main configure script has finished, which is useless because I >> want information from those subsidiary configure script to decide how to >> build my application. > > Why don't you organize your package in such a way that the top level > configure is just a stub one calling those for lib1, lib2, ..., libN, > and only then the one for your main package? Why don't we make configure act like the Automake SUBDIRS construct in that you can place a "." in the list at the point you want the current directory to be processed. In fact, I'm rather surprised it doesn't already do this somehow. Regards, John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIPCPddcgqmRY/OH8RAkgqAJ9RCtvLIGgF7qbbncojN3FITgYwjACeNeFs TPHHsk0oRmuT9IlxmKbooiA= =L/Sh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
