Hello, I've little to add to Brian's detailed reply, except that ...
* Mar Loh wrote on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:07:23PM CEST: > +topdir > --+libsrcdir > --+libsrcsubdir1 > --+libsrcsubdir2 there is no need to have configure scripts in each of those directories. Just have one at the top, drop the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, instead list all generated Makefiles (however many you may choose, recursive or not) as AC_CONFIG_FILES there. Cheers, Ralf