Keith Marshall wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:12:02 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> And yes, it is perfectly possible to have subpackages that do not >> use Automake, or do not use Autoconf either. Their configure >> scripts merely have to conform to what the GNU Coding Standards >> say, and their makefiles too. > > Which is probably unfortunate, from the OP's perspective, because... > > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:02:58 Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> the zlib project does not use Autoconf or Automake. It >> only pretends to look like a project which uses Autoconf or >> Automake using a hand-written configure and Makefile.in which only >> works completely under Linux. > > ...and the resemblance is in name only; beyond that, there isn't even > a superficial likeness -- certainly in no way GCS conformant. > How can I tell autoconf to run the configure without worrying about it? Also, is there a way of setting up cascading projects that don't perform all the compiler checks for each sub-project? thanks dan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
