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Re: configure options
From: |
Lars Hecking |
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Re: configure options |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:42:54 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.3.11i |
> I'm working on a project with a pretty large (and increasing)
> number of configure parameters, so I look for ways to store sets
> of parameters externally, such that they be used much like config.cache,
> if desired. Since all possible arguments could be known from the macros
> used in configure.in, I'm wondering whether some simple tool like autoheader
> could not extract them (say, as a triple of {name, default, description})
> and store them in an external file which I could inspect and manipulate
> prior to invoking configure (for example gui based config tools).
>
> Does anything like that exist or are there plans to add such functionality ?
>
> Regards, Stefan
>
> PS: I admitt that this is non trivial, at least if it is to be done
> 'correctly',
> i.e. with all the relations (constraints) between parametes exposed...
Have you looked up CONFIG_SITE in the autoconf manual?