Re: How to "bake in" configure args

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
>
> > Is there a "standard" way to do this?  Google kind of fails for this.
>
> I see that Gavin Smith already answered the question you asked, but 
> GraphicsMagick took a different tact.

I didn't find that to be an "answer" so much as a request for more 
clarification.

"Is there a simple autoconf/automake macro that will just stuff the entire 
text string the user passed to configure, into a text string or a #define 
or something, which can be compiled into the binary".  Something I can 
inherit in build.h.

I see numerous projects doing this, in various ways.  I don't know if 
there's a "standard" way, but if there is, I'd like to use it, without 
introducing additional code complexity.

In looking at my project, and searching the generated config files, 
nothing compileable seems to have those args in it.

I'm nominally not a C coder, I'm just the guy who gets to answer support 
tickets and triage bug reports and get users to figure out if they 
installed their OS package, how that was set up and compiled.

-Dan


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