Hello ianalis, * ianalis wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:23:48PM CET: > > I placed a copy of each autoconfiscated third-party dependency of my > software as a subdirectory. I then followed the instructions for > building subpackages in autotools (http://www.gnu.org/software/ > automake/manual/html_node/Subpackages.html#Subpackages). However, > there is a subpackage that needs to have certain parameters passed to > its configure script. The macro AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS passes the command > line parameters to the configure script of each subpackage but I do > not want the user to worry about the exact parameters to pass to > configure. > > My question now is how do I set the parameters to pass to configure in > my subpackages?
It's not a documented Autoconf interface, but you can append to $ac_configure_args. Note that with newer Autoconf, this macro will be eval-expanded and use re-quoting for allowing to pass arbitrary input. This question would have been even better on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Cheers, Ralf
