Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > the user > will prefer the simplest and fastest way to get over a build failure.
So, please document the possible ways of getting over a build failure. Currently, the manual is silent about this. > I think it would be better if Automake stated plainly: > > Prefer using $(variable) over @varia...@. That enables the user > to override the setting of the variable at `make' run time. > > I thought the manual already said this, but I can't find it right now. This is only a partial answer to the problem. It helps only if one of the AC_PROG_*, AC_CHECK_PROG*, AC_CHECK_TOOL* macros guessed wrong. What if the user wants to override the results of the following autoconf tests? - AC_CHECK_TYPES([uid_t]) - AC_CHECK_LIB([nsl], [gethostname]) - AC_FUNC_GETGROUPS - AC_FUNC_MKTIME - AC_CHECK_FUNC([foo]) - AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([foo]) - AC_CHECK_HEADER([stdbool.h]) - AC_CHECK_DECL([errno],,,[#include <errno.h>]) - AC_CHECK_MEMBER([struct stat.st_blksize]) - AC_SYS_LARGEFILE - AC_CANONICAL_HOST Currently only a few autoconf wizards know how to do it. The doc does not say it. Bruno
