Re: (wishlist) Automated lib-config script generation

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:19:21PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Roger> AC_CONFIG_FILES(translit([$1], [A-Z], [a-z])-config, chmod +x 
> translit([$1], [A-Z], [a-z])-config)
> Roger> ])
> 
> Roger> However, it does not work with automake:
> 
> Yes, this is a known problem.
> 
> Roger> It seems as though automake parses configure.ac, but does not
> Roger> properly expand the macros
> 
> Exactly.  Automake is currently rather dumb about how it does this
> parsing.
> 
> In the future Automake will use autoconf's tracing facility, so
> hopefully this problem will go away.

Great.
 
> Roger> I suppose AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS could be used instead, but it's not as
> Roger> clean.  If automake had something like AM_IGNORE_FILE(), which could
> Roger> be given m4 code as well as literals, that would solve the problem.
> 
> The problem isn't that complex.  It is just that automake doesn't know
> that the argument to AC_CONFIG_FILES is computed.
> I've made a note of this; hopefully I'll have something (perhaps just
> a hack) for 1.5.

OK.  My use of it is not essential.  It's easy to make a note to users
of the macro to put the line in manually.  I look forward to seeing
automake deal with this using autoconf's tracing facility in the future.

Thanks,
Roger

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