Re: specifying multiple with arguments

[Dan Manthey]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Dan Manthey wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Patrick West wrote:
>
> > I am interested in doing something like this:
> >
> > ./configure --with-package=package1 --with-package=package2
> >
> > But I am not sure how to do this. I try to use AC_ARG_WITH, but that
> > only takes package2 and ignores package1.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > pwest
> >
>
> Depends exactly what you mean:
>
> ./configure --with-pkg1=foo1 --with-pkg2=bar2
>
> or
>
> ./configure --with-pkg=foo1,bar2
>
> In the former case, call AC_ARG_WITH twice with differnt first arguments.
>
> In the later, call it once and use it's third (and possibly fourth)
> arguments to examine $withval and parse it into foo1 and bar2, such as via
>
> ac_save_IFS=$IFS
> for p in $withval; do
>   IFS=$ac_save_IFS
>   # add $p to list of packages to use as pkg.
> done
>
>
> -Dan
>

Of course, that line ac_save_IFS... should be

ac_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=,

-Dan