Re: [PHP4BETA] Setup script.

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:57:56PM -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > And maybe I'll point out again how cool it would be to have something > > like > > http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/build/config.cgi which > > generates itself from the configure.in stuff (or however it works out > > in the PHP4 tree). > > > > It's a pretty basic premise that I never would have thought of -- use > > m4 to process the configure.in to spit out an easily parsed file that > > details the various configuration settings. > > > > The source is at > > http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/build/ > > That is pretty cool, however in an automake setup there isn't a single > configure.in file that contains everything, there is a main one and a > bunch of config.m4 files. One for each extension. Probably still some > nifty way to pull off the same thing though. It's perfectly adaptable to our system. Remember that our configure.in is itself created from configure.in.in with all the small config.m4 files pulled in. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant