From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2002-04-17 22:31:11
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Paul Moore wrote: > > This may not be entirely appropriate for the list, but I'm not sure > where I'd find a better audience for this sort of question. Apologies if > this is off-topic. > > I'm working on ports of some of the GNU utilities (diffutils at the > moment). There are some definitions in a "system.h" header, which are > documented as default values, which can be overridden in config.h. Now I > have override versions appropriate for Win32, but I can't patch config.h > to include them, as that is a generated file. > > At the moment, I'm patching my definitions in at the top of system.h, > but I wonder if there is a better place? Is it possible to add defines > somewhere (config.hin?) so that they get included in config.h when it is > built? > This is an autoconfiguration question, probably best asked/researched on aut...@gn..., however, I'll give it a shot. The best place to modify what happens with autotools is within the m4 scripts. Acinclude.m4 is included by autoconf before creating configure from configure.in so your hacks should go into acinclude.m4. However, currently autotools aren't yet functional for MinGW/MSYS, albeit, I'm working on it. There is an online book on the autotools suite at gnu.org. If you have Cygwin installed you could also look at the info files for autoconf and automake. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com |