Hi Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:51:04PM CEST: > how do I get access to all the configure arguments? > > my setup is as follows: > configure (generated from configure.in) generated shell script > makemake from makemake.in: > AC_CONFIG_FILES([makemake],[ > echo "#!$SHELL" > makemake.tmp > echo "# Generated from makemake.in by configure using:" >> makemake.tmp > echo "CONFIG_SHELL=$SHELL" >> makemake.tmp > cat makemake >> makemake.tmp > mv makemake.tmp makemake > chmod a+x makemake > ]) Why are you making things so complicated? AC_SUBST([SHELL]) AC_SUBST([module_configure_flags], ["$ac_configure_args"]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([makemake], [chmod a+x makemake]) and in makemake.in: #! @SHELL@ # Generated from makemake.in by configure using: CONFIG_SHELL="@SHELL@" # mind the quoting, for args like -x. ... $srcdir/subdir/configure @module_configure_flags@ Of course, there are several small but important details to be aware of: - $ac_configure_args is quoted in a way suitable for evaluation. That makes the above work. - $ac_configure_args must be corrected for sub configures: --srcdir needs adjustment, --cache-file too, some args may need to be pruned. AC_INIT and AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS currently share this task. - $ac_configure_args is not documented; but realizing that it is used in several third-party packages, changing it without good reason is not likely to happen. The documented way to get at configure args is to save "$@" very soon after AC_INIT. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
