Re: generating a configure script in a subdirectory?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:

> But the problem with doing it independently is that the user could
> install the subproject in
> a different location of the main project, and the application needs to
> both be installed
> in the same directory to function correctly.
>
> Is this not possible to do?

You confuse me.  The purpose of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS is to pass the
configure arguments to subordinate configures (e.g. --prefix) so that
as long as each subproject follows the same GNU-standard rules, the
binaries should install into the same directory.

Different "subprojects" may require a different version of autoconf,
automake, libtool, etc., so care must be taken to use the correct
tools when setting up the subproject.

Bob
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