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Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE and checking for unrecognized switches
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Kip Warner |
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Re: AC_ARG_ENABLE and checking for unrecognized switches |
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Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:35:12 -0700 |
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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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