On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:59:32PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "gd" == Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gd> while trying to create an rpm for the mp4h project, I jumped on the > gd> following problem: > > gd> - the toplevel configure has configure.ac > gd> - a subdir libltdl/ is copied in, which contains a configure.in > gd> - the rpm macro %configure will expand to a line like > gd> CFLAGS=$RPM_CFLAGS configure --prefix .... > gd> - the toplevel configure will call the the ltdl/configure using... > gd> configure sometarget --prefix... 'CFLAGS=$expanded_RPM_CFLAGS' > > gd> and BOOM. Yepp, I can fix it while *not* using %configure > gd> with the extra CFLAGS settings. > > The real fix is to rerun autoconf in both directories to make > sure the configure is generated by the same version of Autoconf > (Your libltdl/configure obviously comes from Autoconf 2.13). [...]
Manual section `Configuring Other Packages in Subdirectories' does say nothing for such a requirement. Is it a feature? If yes, why does autoconf not generate configure scripts within subdirectories? Denis
