Re: conditionally compiling C++ code

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Sander Niemeijer wrote:
> I was just wondering, but aren't the --with-PACKAGE/--enable-FEATURE 
> options of configure meant for this?
Exactly, and it is up to the author of the configure.ac file to make sure 
these options work as they're supposed to. Your way of handling these 
options (snipped) is the right way *if* the macros can be run optionally - 
and this should, IMHO, always be the case (except for macros of vital 
importance to configure itself, such as AC_INIT.

I think we're about at a dollar's worth of opinions here, though - someone 
should start writing something (the maintainer of the AC_PROG_CXX macro 
might want to fix the two bugs mentioned in this thread, for example).

Me being completely ignorant of autoconf innarts, not having a copyright 
waiver and not having time, I don't think I am in any way close to 
patching up autoconf.. (though I do hate to be on the complaining side of 
the argument).

rlc