Re: Combining Multiple Packages Together

[Bruce Korb]

Tim Van Holder wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to build a new package by combining multiple packages
> > together.  Each of the existing packages have their own config.h
> > files.  I'd like to arrange things so that all packages....
> > How is this normally done?
> 
> I don't think this is done often....
> There's really no good way to do this, short of creating a single,
> top-level configure.ac, and using autoheader on that....

"no good way" is about right.  However, Gary V. Vaughan was
kind enough to figure out how to glue his snprintfv into
my autogen:

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/autogen/autogen-5.2.11.tar.gz

which is quite a bit short of a single configure.ac
(well, "configure.in", I've not gotten around to changing...;)