Re: nested packages

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:39:41AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Rossi wrote on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:42:51AM CEST:
> > [...] I would like to avoid having to run ./configure
> > twice for the installation of CGDB.

do you know about AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS?
With this macro, the outer configure runs the inner configure
automatically.  Is that what you want?
I hope the description in the manual is sufficient.

> Eliminating the second configure run is sometimes possible, but for

Ralf, what are you speaking about?  You introduced AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS,
or eliminated it?

> > I would like to include them both in the same CVS repository and make 
> > separate releases of the packages.

I agree with Ralf here, that if you plan to release both of the packages
independently, it's best to write a README which says that libgdbi has
to be installed first.

If you combine the packages, you might run into problems when youtry
to link CGDB against the not-yet-installed libgdbi?  Maybe it's just
my prejudice, but I'd feel safer if I had it as two packages.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal