On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:48:38AM -0600, Michael Bletzinger wrote:
: The thing is, that since every AC_SUBST'd variable is transformed into a
: make variable, you can already specify all sorts of derived stuff using
: make variables in Makefile.am's with the CVS automake. For example:
:
: in the configure.in
:
: AC_SUBST(arch)
: AC_SUBST(nonthreaded)
: AC_SUBST(nonthreaded_sources)
:
:
: and in the Makefile.am
:
: foo_SOURCES = foo.c fee_$(arch).c
:
: lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo_$(nonthreaded).la
:
: libfoo___nonthreaded__la_SOURCES = foo.c $(nonthreaded_sources)
Ah, I missed this "hack" when I started trying. I don't consider it to
be "supported", though, since you need to transform the characters...
: So I'm not sure that doing autoconf substitution really adds anything.
If nothing else, it will de-obfuscate such hacks as the one above :)
Lars J
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