Re: Automake and mkoctfile

[Arvid Rosén]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Arvid Rosén wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > Are anyone here using automake/autoconf together with mkoctfile when 
> > building projects that will result in .oct-files? Does it work well?
> > It would be nice if the generated configure file would check for 
> > mkoctfile and the needed headers etc.
> >
> > I know I could make everything work quite ok if I write the 
> > Makefile.am manually, as I would do with a normal makefile, but than 
> > you kind of miss the point with automake.
> > Has anyone got any ideas or pointers to more information?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Arvid
>
>
> I would suggest checking out the CVS for octave-forge 
> (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2888), which includes many .oct 
> files.
>
> -Quentin

Thanks for your suggestion!
And for those of you who might be interested, here is what I found in 
the configure.base file of octave-forge, which I had handy.

dnl Check for mkoctfile
AC_CHECK_PROG(MKOCTFILE,mkoctfile,mkoctfile)
test -z "$MKOCTFILE" && AC_MSG_WARN([no mkoctfile found on path])

...

dnl C++ compiler and flags
CXX=`$MKOCTFILE -p CXX`
CXXFLAGS=`$MKOCTFILE -p CXXFLAGS`
CXXPICFLAG=`$MKOCTFILE -p CXXPICFLAG`
AC_SUBST(CXX)
AC_SUBST(CXXFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(CXXPICFLAG)

...

Seems like a pretty straight forward solution to the problem and might 
have been obious to the ones of you that are more familiar to automake 
than I am.

Cheers
Arvid



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------