On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 14:35 -0700, Kip Warner wrote: > On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 16:24 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > A project can be made subordinate to another project without > > the author of the subordinate project being aware of it. This is a > > very useful capability. This capability is used by projects such > > as > > GCC. > > Hey Bob, > > > The Autotools philosophy is to provide as much freedom as possible > > to the end user while working in a consistent way. This would > > include the case where a project is created which builds several > > other projects. > > In this case my project isn't subordinate to any other. It also has > no subprojects such that the root configure.ac invokes child ones. > There's not even child Makefile.am's.
I also just found out that enable_option_checking is by default set to "no", which appears to be contrary to what the Autoconf manual says. -- Kip Warner | Senior Software Engineer OpenPGP signed/encrypted mail preferred https://www.thevertigo.com
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