Re: AC_DEFINE questions

[Mike Castle]

In article <address@hidden>, Balint Joo  <address@hidden> wrote:
>I have two packages configured by autoconf. One of them
>uses the config.h file to set some configuration definitions
>such as ARCH. This is not just build time information, but something
>general (the software is for a system where I have to specify some
>array dimensions at configure time). The package builds a library
>which is installed, and config.h gets installed also in the @prefix@/include
>directory.

Instead of having a *config.h that lists the array dimensions, extend your
API to have have functions that provides those values at runtime.

mrc

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