Re: nested packages

[Russell Shaw]

Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 projects, CGDB and libgdbmi. CGDB depends on libgdbmi. I would
> like to make libgdbmi an autoconf package so that other people can
> benefit from it.
>
> Is there a nice way to have CGDB's package use libgdbmi's package as if
> it were all 1 package? I would like to avoid having to run ./configure
> twice for the installation of CGDB.
>
> I would like to include them both in the same CVS repository and make 
> separate releases of the packages.
>
> Any advice? I could be persuaded to do things differently.

IIRC, there's a section in the automake manual about nesting packages
that have their own configure.ac scripts. The autoconf manual may have
a section too.