Re: How to best prevent autoreconf from recursing into a subdir

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/01/2010 08:45 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> > > (1) is there a better (more correct) way to achieve the same result?
> >
> > Yes; see 'info Autoconf Subdirectories' for better code, and info
> > autoreconf for the --no-recursive flag.
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> yes, of course.
>
> Sorry, my explanation missed an important point: we do want autoreconf to
> recurse into subdirectories, just not into this particular one.
My advice would be you to

* redesign your configuration such that autoreconf works.
What you are doing doesn't seem sound to me.

or (principle of least resistance)
* not use autoreconf, but to implement a toplevel "bootstrap"/"autogen" 
style script, you could fill with explicit "cd's" and "autoreconf 
--no-recursive"/"autoreconf" where suitable.

Ralf