I have some nested packages that are optionally built by my code. For these nested packages, I would like to configure, compile and install (in a prefix my package sets) them before my main package compiles. I'm familiar with AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS and using SUBDIRS to build nested packages, but it's getting these nested packages to _both_ build and install before the main package builds that I can't figure out. I want the packages to install because they have includes and libraries spread over several directories. Does anyone know how to do this?
As a work around, I'm running the (optional) build and install from inside the main package's configure. I could also set CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS as a long list of -I and -L options... A related question: How can I pass different options to the nested package's configure scripts? By setting $ac_configure_args? I want to do this so that nested packages can build as static libraries compiled using position independent code. Thanks, James -- James Gallagher jgallagher at opendap.org 406.723.8663
