Re: Defining a hierarchy of Autotools Projects

[Roger Leigh]

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"Eazy" <eitan_zahavi@hotmail.com> writes:

> I have a set of GNU projects that are autotools based (autoconf,
> automake and libtool).
> Now I need to package them into a combined project that has some
> limited code of its own but uses the libs and executables built by
> these projects. I would like to package the projects in a way that will
> allow the user to install all of them as one entity - avoid the need to
> do a separate untar/configure/make/make install for each one of them.
>
> What is the best method for defining such a "top level" autotools based
> project?
> Is there an automatic way to do that?
> Can it be an "autotools" project by itself?

Yes, with AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_node/autoconf_33.html#SEC33


Regards,
Roger

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