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Re: configuring sub directories optional
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: configuring sub directories optional |
Date: |
28 Oct 2002 18:32:25 +0100 |
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| Jeff Squyres wrote:
| > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Earnie Boyd wrote:
| >
|
| >>I suppose checking for the existance of a created file in the
| >>subdirectory from the top-level configure isn't a choice that one would
| >>consider?
| > No -- that's not the problem.
|
| > The problem is that AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS (and therefore the top-level
|
| > configure.ac) will immediately abort if any of the sub-configures return
| > anything other than a status of 0. So there's no possibility of the
| > top-level configure.ac checking to see if the sub-configure succeeded or
| > not -- if the sub-configure fails, everything aborts.
| >
|
|
| Ok, I'll shut-up now. But, at least we have a full understanding of
| the problem.
Indeed.
What is the feature you (Jeff) lack? Why would it be normal to fail?
What can't you have the sub configure exit 0 in case of
what-is-not-that-much-of-a-failure?
People have used
if test -d foo; then
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(foo)
fi
successfully until now (as suggested by Earnie).
- configuring sub directories optional, Stefan Seefeld, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Jeff Squyres, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Earnie Boyd, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Stefan Seefeld, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Jeff Squyres, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Earnie Boyd, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Jeff Squyres, 2002/10/28
- Re: configuring sub directories optional, Eric Siegerman, 2002/10/29
Re: configuring sub directories optional, Stefan Seefeld, 2002/10/28