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Re: Getting data from a nested configure script?
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: Getting data from a nested configure script? |
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Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:28:46 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
Hi Benoit,
* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:11:17AM CET:
> Say that I use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([foo]), is there a standard way for
> the parent configure to retrieve some information from foo's
> configure?
The standard way to extract information computed by configure is using
config.status. Maybe it helps you to note that you can use the --file
and --header arguments with files not registered in configure.ac.
For example:
echo '@CFLAGS@' | ./config.status --file=-
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf