Re: AC_DEFINE questions

[Guido Draheim]

Balint Joo wrote:
> array dimensions at configure time). The package builds a library
> which is installed, and config.h gets installed also in the 
> @prefix@/include
> directory.
>
> I then have a second package which needs to use the first one,
> and it needs to include the its config.h file.
>
> However, the version of autoconf I use, also defines some package
> versioning information (PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_TARNAME etc etc).
> So when I compile the second package, which also has PACKAGE_NAME
> and PACKAGE_TARNAME etc etc defined, these definitions conflict
> between the two packages.
>
> I'd like to suppress these conflicts. It would be nice if I could
> dump the PACKAGE_TARNAME defines into a different file from my
> other definitions say something like config.h for the important
> ones and version.h for PACKAGE_TARNAME and its friends.
>
> Is there a nice way to solve this problem?

AC_CREATE_PREFIX_CONFIG_H .... see http://ac-archive.sf.net

it's an old problem of library makers, search the autoconf ML
archive for references. Basic point: do not install config.h,
and if you don't want to create your own pkg-config.h.in, then
the above macro might be of help to you to make one up.

have lots of fun, guido

(btw, I have a new macro AX_*PREFIX* on my disk that integrates
 into config.status - you can find it in cvs at above website).