On 2014-08-13 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/13/2014 05:54 AM, fr33domlover wrote: > > What would be an appropriate way to offer such an option? Preferrably it > > should appear in ./configure --help, but if not there must be some other > > good place to let people know it exists. > > AC_ARG_WITH() is probably the most-used solution for this, where you let > the user supply a path name as the argument, and where the option will > be documented in ./configure --help. > > AC_ARG_WITH([css-files], > [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-css-files], [location of css files > to use with generated html])], > [ ... set your variable to the user's provided string ... ], > [ ... default your variable to your in-tree location ... ]) > > lets the end user do ./configure --with-css-files=/path/to/alternate >
This sounds good but I wasn't sure because the autoconf manual says that WITH is for optional packages. I was worried using it for data files would be confusing to the user. Should I worry, or is WITH a common/expected solution? I'm making a reusable solution so I want it to be good :-) -- fr33
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