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Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE and checking for unrecognized switches


From: Kip Warner
Subject: Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE and checking for unrecognized switches
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:35:12 -0700
User-agent: Evolution 3.30.1-1build1

On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 16:24 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> A project can be made subordinate to another project without
> the author of the subordinate project being aware of it.  This is a
> very useful capability.  This capability is used by projects such as
> GCC.

Hey Bob,

> The Autotools philosophy is to provide as much freedom as possible
> to the end user while working in a consistent way.  This would
> include the case where a project is created which builds several
> other projects.

In this case my project isn't subordinate to any other. It also has no
subprojects such that the root configure.ac invokes child ones. There's
not even child Makefile.am's.

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Kip Warner | Senior Software Engineer
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