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Re: preventing autoheader from overwriting my files...
- From: Stephen Torri <storri at ameritech dot net>
- To: Dale E Martin <dmartin at cliftonlabs dot com>
- Cc: Automake <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:52:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: preventing autoheader from overwriting my files...
- References: <20040714192342.GA12857@clifton-labs.com>
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:23, Dale E Martin wrote:
> Hello. I've got a header file I want autotools to handle for me,
> WarpedConfig.h. My WarpedConfig.h.in has header guards in it and has
> "#undef"s for all of the things I want defined. I have this in my
> configure.ac:
> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/warped/WarpedConfig.h:src/warped/WarpedConfig.h.in])
>
> Normally this works fine. But I have noticed that if I manually run
> "autoheader" the file WarpedConfig.h.in gets overwritten. And occasionally
> it happens with "autoreconf -i" as well.
>
> Am I do something wrong, missing something, or is this a feature I don't
> understand?
Do not include WarpedConfig.h.in in the AC_CONFIG_HEADERS. Autoheader
only needs the end result WarpedConfig.h in the AC_CONFIG_HEADERS. It
will scan the autoconfigure.ac file and create WarpedConfig.h.in.
Autoconfigure script will take that file and the user configurations
chosen and generate the end result file WarpedConfig.h in src/warped
directory.
I hope this helps.
Stephen
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Stephen Torri <storri@ameritech.net>