John Ling wrote: > > I think I've figured out the way to do it: > > In my Makefile.am I put in a line like 'export CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS=$(LIBS)' > > Then in my Makefile.loader I put in my LIBS definition: > > LIBS = $(CONFIGURE-TIME_LIBS) ...
You might have better luck with CONFIGURE_TIME_LIBS ;-) >>How do I reference such a variable? >> >>In addition, depending on the value of this variable, I then want to >>pass a signal from my Makefile.am to yet another Makefile which is >>called from Makefile.am. This signal is to tell the second Makefile to >>add an -lz in its LIBS definition. >> >>How do I do this? In what way can I send such a flag/signal? Methinks what you want is along the lines of: AC_CHECKLIB(z, gzopen) and that will add -lz to LIBS if gzopen() is found in it. %LIBS% will be inserted by automake in all your Makefile.in files. Good luck. - Bruce