Re: Combining Multiple Packages Together

[Brian Minard]

On October 28, 2001, Bruce Korb wrote:
 > "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...;)

Excellent!  An example on how this is supposed to work.  

Both of these packages have their own config.h files, so that isn't an
issue after all.  

Also, a portion of each file in these packages is mutually exclusive.
This didn't turn up in the examples I created.  I had considered using
AC_CONFIG_LINKS() to remove the multiple config.h files containing what I
thought were subsets of each other (Thanks, Tim).

I'm new to Autoconf, but I get the impression that a single
configure.in wasn't a design goal.  The AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() macro
seems to support this.  Given the way configure works in this case I
don't see a problem with multiple configure.in files.