Eric Lemings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a tricky little problem I was hoping someone could
> help me with.  I am trying to write an Autotools macro that
> extracts the value of a macro from a system header file
> and defines another preprocessor macro with the same value.

You can use AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED to define a macro to the result of a shell
substitution.  You can easily extract the value from the output of the
preprocessor.  Don't use the output of a compiled program because that
would make cross-compiling impossible.

Andreas.

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