Re: How do I conditinally make a makefile?

[Sam Clegg]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:07:16AM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Anyway, here is the end of my configure.in. Any suggesions to achieve what I
> want? 
> 
> AC_OUTPUT([\
> Makefile                                        \
> src/Makefile                                    \
> src/non_gui/Makefile                            \
> src/gui/Makefile                                \
> man/Makefile                                    \
> examples/Makefile                               \
> docs/Makefile                                   \
> docs/html-docs/Makefile                         \
> docs/html-docs/jpgs/Makefile                    \
> docs/qex-december-1996/Makefile                 \
> docs/theory/Makefile                            \
> docs/Makefile                                   ])
> 
> dnl if test "x$with_gui" = "xyes"; then
> dnl AC_OUTPUT([src/gui/Makefile])
> dnl fi

If you really want to do this you could use a shell variable:

makefiles="$makefiles Makefile.maybe"

AC_OUTPUT($makefiles)

If you use automake, however, it may get very confused by this.
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