Re: building many programs into the same project

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Lorenzo" == Lorenzo Bettini <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Lorenzo> I'd like to include two of my programs java2html and cpp2html
> Lorenzo> into the same package (say src2...), but I would like to
> Lorenzo> maintain two different program names and versions, and
> Lorenzo> moreover I'd like to have the possibility to build and
> Lorenzo> install only on of these two. Is it possible with automake
> Lorenzo> and autoconf (which I'm already using)?
> 
> Did you ever get an answer to this?

No, you're the first :-)

> I think all this is possible.  It partly depends on what you mean by
> "different versions".  Automake's `make dist' feature assumes your
> overall package has a single version.

I mean that, e.g., java2html could be 1.7 and cpp2html 1.3, though they
are in the same package, and possibly do something like make
install_java2html...

thanks
        Lorenzo

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