On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 03:55, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Dave Kirkby wrote: > > > Hi, > > I want to allow a configure script to be told the number of CPUs > > to build some software for. The manual says 'AC_ARG_ENABLE' can read an > > agument, but I can't for the life of me see how to get it. I basically > > want to have something AC_DEFINE CPUS to be an integer read whilst > > configuring the program. > > The argument passed to --enable-foo will be in $enableval after the > option is processed (although it's best to only refer to it in the code > blocks you supply to AC_ARG_ENABLE). You can safely use $enable_foo instead of $enableval, even outside of blocks suppled to AC_ARG_ENABLE.
Ralf