Re: Accessing AC_DEFINE'd var

[Guido Draheim]

Frank A. Uepping wrote:
> With AC_DEFINE I can define cpp definitions.
> Is that legal/supposed-to to access the underlying var in configure.ac?
> Same for AC_SUBST.
>
> E.g.:
> ## configure.ac
> AC_INIT([foo], [1.0])  ## AC_DEFINE: PACKAGE_TARNAME/VERSION...
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([$PACKAGE_TARNAME], [$PACKAGE_VERSION])
> ## eof configure.ac
> BTW: Is the version of AC_INIT meant to be the package version or that of 
> configure.ac?
> (I am wondering that AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE doesn't use PACKAGE_* by default.)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

me too. Even more bad here, some macros require literals instead of
varnames which is definitly SEVERELY MISGUIDED, IMNSHO.

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