Re: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and pkg-config

[John Calcote]

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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> 
> * Richard Ash wrote on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:31:39PM CEST:
>> I seem to have hit a fundamental problem with the way AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS
>> that seems to make it most of the way to useless if you want to also use
>> pkg-config. Basically, it runs the configure scripts in sub-directories
>> after my main configure script has finished, which is useless because I
>> want information from those subsidiary configure script to decide how to
>> build my application.
> 
> Why don't you organize your package in such a way that the top level
> configure is just a stub one calling those for lib1, lib2, ..., libN,
> and only then the one for your main package?

Why don't we make configure act like the Automake SUBDIRS construct in
that you can place a "." in the list at the point you want the current
directory to be processed. In fact, I'm rather surprised it doesn't
already do this somehow.

Regards,
John
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