libqof variables in configure.in (Fwd: gentoo ebuild)
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 11 10:13:45 EST 2006
Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck at gmx.at> writes:
> ./configure creates a config.h which has all this variables inside,
> where a c programm has to know a static path. So inside of config.h
> would stay your QSF_STATIC_PATH_VARIABLE defined. Now make or make
> install do not rewrite the config.h file, (just if it has to reconfigure
> because of any changes in the configure script or configure.in, so as if
> you don't use ./autogen.sh and ./configure before make, and make hast do
> to this), so we have a consitent config.h file. because make and make
> install do not change this, the path will be ok, there is no recompile
> of the application on make install prefix=/some/where
>
> Am I right?
Unfortunately GnuCash uses 'make' instead of 'configure' to generate a
bunch of its files. Perhaps that should be changed, but at the moment
that's how it is.
> Martin
-derek
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