On 14 Oct 2003, Armin Bauer told this: > hi. > > i wrote a conduit for gnome-pilot so that you dont have to kill > gpilotd before using multisync with the palm plugin and so you dont > have to press "Sync" when you pressing the hotsync button should be > enough. im using the dbus for communication between the conduit and > the palm plugin. > > Here is my problem: the dbus packages are pretty much useless since > the dbus API changes way to often. thats why i include a copy of > dbus in my code (which also has the advantage that the dbus daemon > does not need to run) and link my application with it. here is what > the directory structure looks like: > > palm_sync (configure.in Makefile.am) > palm_sync/src (Makefile.am) > palm_sync/dbus (configure.in Makefile.am) > palm_sync/dbus/dbus (Makefile.am) > palm_sync/dbus/glib (Makefile.am) > > what i want it to do is that i only have to ./configure in palm_sync > and make in palm_sync. then the autotools should configure and make > the dbus libraries and after that the palm plugin. > > How can that be done? > > i tried adding the dbus dirs to the AC_OUTPUT macro. but then the > second configure.in in the top dbus dir gets ignored which will > result in corrupt Makefiles. > > Any hints? > > btw: it works if i built it manually like this: > > cd dbus > ./configure > make > cd .. > ./configure > make install > > Armin
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS (DIR ...) It has other side effects, so you should probably read the fine manual. BTW: Thank you for the Palm plug-in. -- Stephen L. Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer http://www.ulmer.org/ Computing and Network Services VOX: (352) 392-2061 University of Florida FAX: (352) 392-9440 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Multisync-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-devel
