> I have a platform on which I am trying to build bison 2.1 for which I would like HAVE_STDINT_H not defined. Running the configure script generates a config.h which has the following lines: > > /* Define to 1 if you have the <stdint.h> header file. */ > #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
Well, this is correct if this header file is available. > Is there any way to not have those lines generated? Perhaps an option to > configure is available? Options to `configure' are defined by whomever wrote the `configure.ac' file, which may or may not be in the distribution. The GNU Coding Standards do not require `configure.ac' to be included. Any options should be shown if you call `configure --help'. > Actually, I'd like to know how to do something > like this in general. I might be missing something, but I haven't been able to find how to do so from any of the documentation or README or INSTALL files. This is more a question for the Autoconf mailing list rather than the Bison mailing list, but I happen to know an answer (if not "the" answer). The following code (from the `configure.ac' file for GNU 3DLDF) is for adding two options to `configure'. The first one is a dummy option, since it's the default. AC_ARG_ENABLE([dummy], AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-debug-compile], [Enable conditionally compiled debugging output (this is the default).]), [],[]) AC_ARG_ENABLE([debug-compile], [AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-debug-compile], [Disable conditionally compiled debugging output.])], [if test $enableval == "yes" then echo "Enabling conditional compilation of debugging output" AC_DEFINE([DEBUG_COMPILE], [1], [Define to 0 or 1 to disable or enable conditional compilation of debugging output.]) else echo "Disabling conditional compilation of debugging output" AC_DEFINE([DEBUG_COMPILE], [0], []) fi], [echo "Enabling conditional compilation of debugging output" AC_DEFINE([DEBUG_COMPILE], [1], []) ]) If you don't want `configure' to define a preprocessor macro to correspond to a header file, remove the name of the header file from the call to `AC_CHECK_HEADERS' in `configure.ac', e.g., AC_CHECK_HEADERS([errno.h float.h limits.h stdlib.h \ unistd.h pthread.h gsl/gsl_complex.h \ gsl/gsl_complex_math.h gsl/gsl_matrix.h]) `AC_CHECK_HEADERS' or `AC_CHECK_HEADER' (if this exists) may actually take additional, optional arguments for code that should be executed if the header file is found or if it's not found. In this case, you could specify that `HAVE_STDINT_H' is undefined. There's probably an easier way of doing this, i.e., an Autoconf function (or whatever they're called) that just causes a preprocessor macro to be defined or undefined in `config.h'. I don't know off-hand, though, so you should check the Autoconf manual. Here's the complete `configure.ac' for GNU 3DLDF: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/3dldf/3dldf/Group/configure.ac?revision=1.18&view=markup If the `configure.ac' for Bison is included in the Bison distribution or is in the CVS repository at Savannah, then you can modify it to suit yourself. This is how I call Autoconf and friends when I need to "start fresh": aclocal autoconf autoheader automake --copy --add-missing configure --prefix=<path for installation> I need other arguments for `configure', but you probably don't. Laurence Finston _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison