Re: PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE_VERSION etc

[Bruce Korb]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Bruce Korb wrote:
> >
> > Why not just incorporate some variation on the "prefix" macro
> > that modifies the names of all the #define-d macros?
> >
> >    my-config.h : config.h
> >        sed 's/^#define /#define MY_/' config.h > $@
> >
> > Install "my-config.h".  Simple.  Effective.  Auto-somethingorother
> > ought to be configurable to insert the prefix on its own, but this
> > isn't exactly rocket science, either.
> 
> There is more involved since it seems that the source code (at least
> the headers) needs to be updated to understand the MY_ variant of the
> defines.

Yes, of course.

> Additional Makefile rules would need to be added to ensure
> that my-config.h is created before any compilation takes place.

I think all the compile dependency stuff is already handled.
"my-config.h" would need to be listed in the BUILT_SOURCES macro
though (in automake-speak).