On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > * Jim Galarowicz wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:08:02PM CEST: >> I was wondering if anyone can point me to any information on how to >> configure from a top-level directory multiple sub-directories with >> different configure requirements. > > Well, you can just write code yourself that calls the sub configure > scripts with the arguments you intend for it. Basically your own > version of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, if you like. > > GCC does this in its own tree (except the code is partly in the > makefile, not only the toplevel configure script). > > For simple things, it often suffices to adjust $ac_configure_args during > configure (beware of the eval quoting though!). > > However, you haven't written what kind of adjustments you need at all, > so it's not clear how to help more. > >> My subdirectories are: libcbtf, libcbtf-xml, libcbtf-mrnet. Each >> subdirectory has different package requirements and has been set up >> to use autoconf, automake, libtool, m4, etc.. > > Wait. If it's just about different package requirements, then you don't > need to mess with toplevel at all. All --with-* and > --enable-*/--disable-* flags are passed down to each sub configure > script. Each of the configure scripts can just choose to adhere to the > flags it knows, and ignore the rest, no? What if options conflict? For instance, say you have a sub package that should be enable-shared disable-static, and another that should be enable-static and disable-shared? Or one that needs --with-foo and one that needs --without-foo? Or any other type of conflicting options? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
