Hi!
I'm new with autoconf tools and need to solve the following problem: I have
a package which contains few subpackages, e.g.. pkgA, pkgB and pkgC.
First I need to build a pkgA and then the built library is used for building
pkgB, and then pkgC & pkgD should be built and everything has to be
installed.
pkgA (clisp) does not use configure.ac(in), but it uses his own hand-coded
configure script; its modules (dir1..dirn) have their own Makefile.in
files, and I have to invoke 'configure' with few extra parameters.
In a picture it looks like:
mypackage
|-- configure.ac
|-- Makefile.am
|-- ...
|
|---------- pkgA
|-- configure
|-- ...
|-- dir1
...
|-- dirn
|---------- pkgB
|-- Makefile.am
|-- file1
...
|-- filen
|-----------pkgC
|-- Makefile.am
|-- file1
...
|-- filen
So, pkgA (clisp) has to be built with its own 'configure' script which is
invoked with some extra parameters to provide runtime-engine for the rest
of the package.
I have tried to use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS in my top-level configure.ac as:
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([clisp-2.33.2])
but autoconf complains that clisp directory does not contain
configure.ac(in):
I read about using 'configure.gnu' and found one post in autoconf archives
(Jul '04) which says:
<quote>
In the tools (aka pkgA) subdirectory, write a wrapper script called
configure.gnu, which takes the arguments passed in from the
top-level configure script and massages them however you
need, then calls:
$CONFIG_SHELL ./configure ...
to do the work.
</quote>
and this solve the problem of passing additional arguments to hand-coded
configure script in pkgA.
However, the problem remains 'cause in the post it is stated:
<quote>
Write a tools/configure.ac (aka pkgA/configure.ac) and do the usual stuff
with it.
</quote>
and I have to use hand-coded configure script which does not use
configure.ac.
The question remains: how to easily solve the problem of invoking custom
'configure' script in one of the sub-package directories?
Any other macro I'm missing?
Sincerely,
Gour
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