Re: How to pass AC_ARG_ENABLE an argument

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 03:55, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Dave Kirkby wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >     I want to allow a configure script to be told the number of CPUs
> > to build some software for. The manual says 'AC_ARG_ENABLE' can read an
> > agument, but I can't for the life of me see how to get it. I basically
> > want to have something AC_DEFINE CPUS to be an integer read whilst
> > configuring the program. 
> 
> The argument passed to --enable-foo will be in $enableval after the 
> option is processed (although it's best to only refer to it in the code 
> blocks you supply to AC_ARG_ENABLE).
You can safely use $enable_foo instead of $enableval, even outside of
blocks suppled to AC_ARG_ENABLE.

Ralf