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Summary: documentation: ordering of basic macros?
Project: Autoconf
Submitted by: karl
Submitted on: Sun 03 Jan 2021 06:10:53 PM PST
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Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
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Details:
is there a recommended ordering of various config macros, namely:
AC_INIT
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
?
I doubt arbitrary ordering can work, but I'm not finding a recommended order
in the manual. The Texinfo and Hello configure.ac files use the above, which
works, but I don't know what variations are possible/supported.
I know AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE isn't Autoconf, of course, but I throw it in since it
is so often present. (I think AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE does require AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
to be called before it.)
As things are, I can put AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR even before AC_INIT, and it
seemingly still works (as far as autoconf is concerned). Not that I want to do
it or think it's a good idea, but a user was quite confused about which order
to be using.
Mostly just wondering about documentation here ... --thanks, karl.
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