> A better reason is simply to save people time chasing dependencies. I like this purpose for software bundling usually.
> I’m referring to the fact that with embedded tarballs, > you can’t call AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() to make the top-level configure script > call the subpackage configure scripts. Do you need to pass any special configuration parameters there occasionally? > Because unpacking the tarballs is conditional, It can happen that I need and really want to reuse an older package so that the corresponding software version will work for a while. > your main software package must be reinventing this wheel, The archive can also be unpacked on a concrete demand, can't it? > and therefore probably missing out on some of the 20 years of wisdom > embedded within autoconf, such as how to pass along things like --prefix, > how to handle separate build and source trees, etc. Are there any extensions needed like they would be supported by the macro "AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR_CUSTOM" from Christian Rössel as a contribution to the topic "Multiple subdirectories with non-similar configure needs"? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-04/msg00006.html Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
