Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE: problem with the output of configure --help

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Vincent Torri <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > if test "x$2" = "xno" ; then
> >   AC_ARG_ENABLE(ecore-[]DOWN,
> >     AS_HELP_STRING(
> >       [--enable-ecore-[]DOWN],
> >       [enable the ecore_[]DOWN module. [[default=disabled]]]
> >     ),
> >     [ want_ecore_[]DOWN=$enableval ],
> >     [ want_ecore_[]DOWN=no ])
> > else
> >   AC_ARG_ENABLE(ecore-[]DOWN,
> >     AS_HELP_STRING(
> >       [--disable-ecore-[]DOWN],
> >       [disable the ecore_[]DOWN module. [[default=enabled]]]
> >     ),
> >     [ want_ecore_[]DOWN=$enableval ],
> >     [ want_ecore_[]DOWN=yes ])
> > fi
>
> You cannot influence the generation of the configure script at runtime for
> obvious reasons.  The expansion of the right AC_ARG_ENABLE must be
> selected by m4 conditionals.

Indeed, it works well with ifelse.

Thank you

Vincent