Re: recording flags specified to configure scripts

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Keith,

* Keith Marshall wrote on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:49:12AM CET:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 07:18:26 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Undocumented (so watch out when updating Autoconf), but:
> >   eval "$ac_configure_args"
> 
> Didn't that get clobbered, in some not so distant past releases?  
> (autoconf-2.60 and 2.61 IIRC; I can't remember if it was fixed in 
> 2.62 or not, but it is, in 2.63).

$@ got clobbered, but not $ac_configure_args.

> > I suppose Autoconf could provide a macro to access this variable
> > which we could then document.
> 
> That would be useful.  I've used $ac_configure_args, filtered, to pass 
> to a sub-configure in a hybrid build, (where the main application is 
> cross-compiled, but the build process needs to create some tools, for 
> its own use on the `build' platform; the sub-configure needs to be 
> invoked with the --host spec filtered out, along with any reference 
> to host_alias, and IIRC, I also filtered out similar references which 
> relate to the --build spec; furthermore, the sub-configure cannot 
> share a cache file, with the main configure process).  A documented, 
> and therefore hopefully stable, mechanism to achieve that objective 
> would be much preferred, to a technique based on an undocumented 
> feature, such as is currently required.

Yes.

Thanks,
Ralf