My bad. I meant 'Makefile.am'. But the rest of the question is correct: How to propagate flags from the root configure.ac to the Makefile.am's in the subdirectories? Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > > There's no such thing as Makefile.ac. configure.ac is processed by > autoconf, and Makefile.am is processed by automake. If you want to > share values across multiple Makefiles, it sounds more like an automake > question for what to put in your Makefile.am. So I'm not quite sure how > best to answer your question, other than to say that yes, automake > supports nesting sub-projects with their own configure.ac while still > allowing the child projects to inherit values substituted in the parent > project configure. > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Passing-flags-to-Makefile.ac%27s-in-subdirs-tp30832667p30837253.html Sent from the Gnu - Autoconf - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf