Hello Keith, * Keith Marshall wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:49:12AM CET: > On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf), but: > > eval "$ac_configure_args" > > Didn't that get clobbered, in some not so distant past releases? > (autoconf-2.60 and 2.61 IIRC; I can't remember if it was fixed in > 2.62 or not, but it is, in 2.63). $@ got clobbered, but not $ac_configure_args. > > I suppose Autoconf could provide a macro to access this variable > > which we could then document. > > That would be useful. I've used $ac_configure_args, filtered, to pass > to a sub-configure in a hybrid build, (where the main application is > cross-compiled, but the build process needs to create some tools, for > its own use on the `build' platform; the sub-configure needs to be > invoked with the --host spec filtered out, along with any reference > to host_alias, and IIRC, I also filtered out similar references which > relate to the --build spec; furthermore, the sub-configure cannot > share a cache file, with the main configure process). A documented, > and therefore hopefully stable, mechanism to achieve that objective > would be much preferred, to a technique based on an undocumented > feature, such as is currently required. Yes. Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
