Re: How can I make the Makefile pass options to autoconf when configure.ac is updated?

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:40:06PM -0000, Stephano Mariani wrote:
> I need to pass a --m4dir to autoconf to generate the configure script
> correctly, how can I do this so that whenever configure regenerated by
> the automake rule:
> 
> cd . && /bin/sh /path/to/project/missing --run aclocal
> cd . && \
>   /bin/sh /path/to/project/missing --run automake --foreign  Makefile
> cd . && /bin/sh //path/to/project/missing --run autoconf

It sounds like you want to use ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in your
Makefile.am.


> PS: I did not know which list this applied to so sorry for the
> cross-post.

The script aclocal comes from automake, so that would seem more
apropos.

-S

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