Re: Automake for system libraries

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ryan,

* Ryan Arnold wrote on Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:28:29PM CEST:
> > Can you off-load the sysdeps detection into a couple of configure macros
> > and replace the corresponding file names with AC_SUBST substitutions?
> > You'd still have to list all possible files in some EXTRA_libdfp_a_SOURCES
> > variable somewhere, but at least that would get you going.

> So I've been trying out the AC_SUBST substitutions like you suggested. 

> configure.ac:324: `dfp_files' includes configure substitution address@hidden@'
> configure.ac:324: and is referred to from `dfp_SOURCES';
> configure.ac:324: configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES 
> variables

Please see "info Automake 'Conditional Sources'" for details, vs. here:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Conditional-Sources.html>

Cheers,
Ralf