Brian, thanks very much. Your post was very educational for me! My problem
is mostly solved now (I have everything compiling and going into the right
place, anyway), and I only need to clean up the scripts a bit. My main
problem was realizing that for my situation, it was best to not have a
configu
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,
Mar Loh wrote:
> Q1: Every time I run ./configure from the topdir, the system checks
> (checking for BSD-compatible) are re-run every time it gets to a new
> subdirectory, making the configure take a long time. How do I remove these
> checks when going to a new subdirectory (these are clearly
My apologies for the novice nature of my question, but I'm quite unfamiliar
with autotools, and I'm failing a bit at filling the gap in documentation
between "hello world" and the full gnu manuals.
I'm trying to get an autobuild system working for a fairly large codebase,
and the recursion and tar
