My bad. I meant 'Makefile.am'. But the rest of the question is correct: How
to propagate flags from the root configure.ac to the Makefile.am's in the
subdirectories?


Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote:
> 
> There's no such thing as Makefile.ac.  configure.ac is processed by
> autoconf, and Makefile.am is processed by automake.  If you want to
> share values across multiple Makefiles, it sounds more like an automake
> question for what to put in your Makefile.am.  So I'm not quite sure how
> best to answer your question, other than to say that yes, automake
> supports nesting sub-projects with their own configure.ac while still
> allowing the child projects to inherit values substituted in the parent
> project configure.
> 

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