Re: Passing flags to SUBDIRS

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:

> If I'd like all of the files in a particular subdirectory to be compiled
> with -Isome/path, for instance, how do I arrange for this?  AM_CPPFLAGS
> does not seem to be automatically propagated.

Use AC_SUBST to perform substitutions.  Automake will add some code to 
convert each subsitution into a make variable with the same name.

So if your configure.ac includes

 AC_SUBST(FOO)

then you could put this in any Makefile.am:

 AM_CPPFLAGS=$(FOO).

Bob
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