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Re: Is there a macro to write an arbitrary file?


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: Is there a macro to write an arbitrary file?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:26:02 -0400
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On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:13:29 Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> We have a makefile in a project, which works well. In the short term at
> least, we do not want to use autoconf to create a makefile, but instead
> use our own.
> 
> However, it would be nice to have a configure script at the top, which
> at least supports --help and a few other things like that. But we do not
> want it to create a makefile in the usual way.

autoconf isnt tied to any specific file (like "Makefile").  if you dont want 
autoconf to create a file, dont list it as an output.

$ cat configure.ac
AC_INIT(foo)
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --help
        ....
-mike

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