Hi Russell, On 3/24/16, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think I sort of see how to set variables within configure.ac, and do some > minimal calculations on them. But how do you transfer the value of a > variable set in configure.ac, to Makefile.am where it will be actually > used? Any shell variable can be marked as an "output variable" by using AC_SUBST; the value is then substituted into configure outputs. See "Setting Output Variables"[1] in the Autoconf manual for the details. It sounds like you are using Automake so this process should be pretty much automatic: by default, automake automatically adds the appropriate magic to set make variables with the same name, so you can just use the variable in make as you normally would. Example: configure.ac: FOO=bar AC_SUBST([FOO]) Makefile.am: my_stuff = $(FOO) [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Setting-Output-Variables Cheers, Nick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
