On 2023-09-29, Dave Hart <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm guessing someone has trod this ground before. I'd appreciate > pointers to examples of how others have detected > --disable-dependency-tracking to change their build behavior.
Two suggestions, one relying on Automake internals and one not: Suggestion 1) It is technically undocumented, but longstanding Automake behaviour is that dependency tracking is internally implemented using an Automake conditional called AMDEP. So you can literally just write in Makefile.am: if AMDEP # stuff to do when dependency tracking is available else # stuff to do when dependency tracking is unavailable or disabled endif Suggestion 2) All explicit --enable-foo/--disable-foo arguments to a configure script are available in shell variables; in the case of --disable-dependency-tracking you can do something like this in configure.ac: AM_CONDITIONAL([NO_DEPS], [test x"$enable_dependency_tracking" = x"no"]) then in Makefile.am: if NO_DEPS # stuff to do when dependency tracking is disabled else # stuff to do otherwise endif Note that these approaches are different in the case where dependency tracking is disabled because it is not supported by the user's tools, rather than by explicit request. This may or may not matter for your use case. Hope that helps, Nick