On Tuesday 15 September 2009 05:31:04 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Could I add a related question:
>
> Yes, but we'd slightly prefer if you started a new thread for a
> new question.
That said, at least this much of your response is right on topic for
the original discussion...
> > is there a way to have
> > sub-package-specific configure options?
>
> Not easily: the actual option strings as passed to each sub
> configure are the same (modulo --srcdir and --cache-file mangling
> of course).
And this could represent a problem for the OP, (who originally wanted
to add zlib via AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS). The problem is that, while zlib
does provide a configure script, it is substantially incompatible
with anything autoconf might generate:
.../zlib-1.2.3$ ./configure --help
usage:
configure [--shared] [--prefix=PREFIX] [--exec_prefix=EXPREFIX]
[--libdir=LIBDIR] [--includedir=INCLUDEDIR]
It may borrow a small subset of them, but ask it to evaluate any of
the other GCS standard options which AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS may helpfully
pass to it, and it chokes:
.../zlib-1.2.3$ ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux --host=mingw32
unknown option: --build=i686-pc-linux
./configure --help for help
--
Regards,
Keith.
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