> From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:51:25 +0100 > On 2012-03-18 18:24 +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > > Hi. I don't see a way to turn on option-checking after it being > > disabled-by-default due to AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. > > have a look at its configure.ac), there's the hopefully > > self-explanatory: > > > > # The directory test/installtest isn't configured until after > > # installation, but to make autoreconf update this directory we > > # have to mention it here > > if false; then > > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([test/installtest]) > > fi > > It is actually the call to AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS which disables option > checking. Are you re-stating what I mentioned above or does it disable option-checking in a different way than I mentioned? (I realise that "call" here is AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS being expanded, not the resulting shell-code being executed.) > Since you're only doing this to make autoreconf recurse into > the subdirectory, and don't actually care about the expansion of > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, you can fool autoreconf into thinking you called > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS without actually doing so. > > For example: > > dnl Fool autoreconf into thinking we called AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS here by > dnl temporily suppressing its definition. > m4_pushdef([AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS], []) > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([test/installtest]) > m4_popdef([AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS]) > > This is (ab)using internal details of autoreconf, thus it might not be > guaranteed to work in the future. But is this considered a cleaner way than getting that effect through the never-executed idiom I used above? And more importantly, will your idiom have the desired effect: not disable option-checking by default? (The answer may be obvious to you autoconfers.) I forgot to mention the fun-and-anecdotal part: stating --enable-debugging instead of --enable-debug (not looking at the build-log) and wondering why the debugging info was so optimized-out; mis-remembering that I should be getting errors for unsupported configure-options because of observations *before* adding the non-call to AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS. :) (Now I've "solved" this supposedly-common mistake by erroring out for AC_ARG_ENABLE([debugging]).) brgds, H-P _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
