Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Andre Stechert
On Oct 4, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Ryan McDougall wrote: However the problem remains that Im at a bit of a loss how to ship a shared .SO library easily. If I build on my machine (or a set of supported build machines) then the build will link to my prefix (lets say /usr/lib) and the end user has no choi

Re: autotools not suited to proprietary development?

2006-10-04 Thread Andre Stechert
Hi, I think you're confusing the idea of a build system for portable software (something the autotools suite can help with) and an installer (or package if you're installing onto a system that has a package manager). From a Windows perspective, it's the same as the difference between Visual

Re: AM_C*FLAGS and C*FLAGS

2006-06-26 Thread Andre Stechert
The trick is that if we use a configure.ac file to help decide what flags may be needed, >inside< this configure script we need to use CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to effect the running of configure. Not really. Just AC_SUBST a variable in the AM_CFLAGS or AM_CPPFLAGS directive. E.g., when I write an a