Re: Custom source configuration

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Yvan Barthélemy wrote:

> I am new to autoconf and I would want to do the following uses :
>
> - I have made a m4 macro to check the Qt environment of a user. Now  
> I would like to check the sources in order to correctly set  
> compiler and linker flags. Is that sort of thing (source scanning)  
> already performed somewhere ?
> If done, where is it done, and can I use that process ?
> If not done, how can I perform this wheck my self from scratch  
> (aka. what would be the better strategy to perform this ?) ?
>
> - The previous use was mostly been thought to be performed at  
> configure time, but it maybe be interesting to perform this at  
> autoreconf time. For example, I would want to generate myself all  
> code with Qt uic, and Qt moc, and distribute the generated code  
> rather than asking the user to do it again (assuming there is no  
> difference in the generated code when generated on different  
> environment).
> Same questions as above : how can I do that sort of thing in the  
> autoconf process (it might or might not need to perform source  
> analysis).

I wrote this:
http://www.tsunanet.net/autotroll/

It's an M4 file and a small piece of Makefile that help building Qt  
applications with Autotools.  I used them successfully for over a  
year with Qt 4.0+, Qt 4.1+, Qt 4.2+, Qt 4.3+ on various GNU/Linux  
distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo) as well as on Windows (Cygwin /  
MinGW) and on MacOSX (older PPC or newer Intel, didn't test with  
Leopard but there is no reason it shouldn't work).

I didn't look at your own macros or that proposed by Ralph but by the  
time I wrote these macros, there was nothing satisfactory.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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