Re: Modularizing large configure.ac files

[Bruce Korb]

Eric Lemings wrote:
> This could very well be a FAQ but I was just wondering if there is some
> conventional way to break a large configure.ac file down into smaller
> modules, tests, sections, etc.

By defining your own macros.  You could pretty much wrap your entire
configure.ac in:

AC_DEFUN([MY_MAC],[
 ......everything.....
])

move it to a mystuff.m4 and reduce configure.ac to:

  AC_INIT
  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
  AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
  MY_MAC