mkoctfile and autoconf in OctaveDE

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Feb-2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| More severely, and if this is going to be a widely-used package, it
| should get fixed, right now it sets variables from mkoctfile in
| Makefile.am, when they really should be set in configure.ac, but I
| think this necessitates writing the proper m4 macros for autoconf.

Why?

| I think that Octave itself solves this problem by writing a mkoctfile
| script in Makefile.in
| 
| My question is, am I correct that the right solution here is with m4?
| I am thinking I should copy the pkg-config.m4 macros and modify them
| to work with mkoctfile.

I'm having some trouble understanding the problem you are trying to
describe.  Maybe it would help if you posted some actual code from the
Makefiles and explained precisely what the problems are.

jwe