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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: configure & make in subdir (was: please help: cannot link c-library into kde-program)
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       1999-12-20 10:37:35
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On Po, 20 pro 1999, claus wilke wrote :
>Sorry,
>
>I have some more questions.
>
>I have added the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS macro in configure.in. In my case it looks
>like
>AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS (kbiblio/btparse/configure) 
>(my program is in subdir kbiblio, and the library is in sub-subdir btparse)
>Now, on ./configure, the configure script of the btparse package is called. So
>this works as expected. However, the files that the configure of btparse
>generates are written into the directory ./, not into the directory
>kbiblio/btparse/   :-(. So in summary, it doesn't work.

AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(kbiblio/btparse)      - without 'configure'

>
>Another problem arises in the make process. Adding btparse to the subdir line in
>the Makefile.am of kbiblio doesn't help to compile btparse, because automake is
>involved, which looks for a Makefile.in in btparse, which is not there because
>btparse build works differently from the kde-build process. So what I really
>need is the possibility to simply invoke the command make in the subdir
>kbiblio/btparse.

It works fine here ( autoconf 2.13, automake 1.4 ). Could it be the wrong
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS ? Also check that there are no files from btparse listed in
AC_OUTPUT in the toplevel configure.in .

>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thank you very much,
>  Claus
>
>(Getting this to run is very important to me, because it would give me BibTex
>parsing for free :-) )
>
>-- 
>Claus Wilke
>claus.wilke@gmx.net

 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@email.cz http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli

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