On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:44:59PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:17:57AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is that AC_CONFIG_HEADERS syntax simply not allowed? (missing file name) > > > > The documentation doesn't seem to allow it. > > > > But also, the documentation seems to say that you can have as many files > > as you like, not just 3. [...] > > Indeed, you can have any number of input files for AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, > as for AC_CONFIG_FILES. > So you can have > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([defines.h:def1.h:def2.h:def3.h:def4.h]) > > And if this is the first config header in the configure.ac, which of > the input files should be picked by autoheader? > I do not see a better answer than what the current implementation > has: autoheader picks the first one.
Right: and how do you tell which to prepend and which to append?! As you say the documentation isn't clear.. > Consequently, I think Patrick's patch should not be accepted. > > But I think we should improve the documentation; most importantly, we > should point out that AH_BOTTOM is usually better that multiple input > files. Sounds good! Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
