On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:20:36PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "R" == R Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> It seems to me that you don't know yet the changes undergone in CVS
> >> Autoconf :(
>
> R> Yes, sorry about that. The Solaris system that gives me internet
> R> access does not have pserver available.
>
> If you're extremely patient, you might want to try
>
> http://www.lrde.epita.fr/people/akim/autoconf-2.14a.tar.gz
>
Thanks
> You could a special tag in the description of the `user modifiable'
> (which means the most often hand modified, since config.h is meant to
> be modified by hand anyway). Something like
>
> /* USER: Set to blah blah blah. */
> #undef BLAH_BLAH
>
> BTW, I might have misunderstood your purpose, but it is not
> conventional to invite the users to modify a header. You probably
> want a battery of --with/--enable?
This seems to be the best choice. It is mainly to set defaults such as the
printer device, and other such things, although these can be overridden on
the command-line.
Alternatively, the third argument to AC_DEFINE looks very promising--the
version of autoconf I currently have does not sport this functionality.
Many thanks for all the help you have given, and to everyone else who
reponded.
Thanks again,
Roger
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Roger Leigh
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