[Box Backup-dev] [OT] Autoconf nesting

[Ben Summers]

On 15 Dec 2005, at 17:23, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi all (especially Martin :-),
>
> Does anyone have any experience of building an autoconfiscated  
> project with another one inside it? Can you point me to relevant  
> useful resources?
>
> I'm having issues with Boxi, which includes Box Backup as a sub- 
> project, now that BB is autoconfiscated. In particular, BB's  
> config.h conflicts with my own (redefining PACKAGE_NAME, etc). and  
> I'm not able to use all the libraries that BB detected for itself  
> (which I need for linking).
>
> I'm thinking it would be nice, if possible, to include most (but  
> not all) of BB's configure.ac in Boxi's configure.in file, but I  
> don't know how feasible that is, or whether it creates other subtle  
> traps. I can't include the whole thing because Boxi and BB both  
> call AC_INIT.

Could you not include Boxi as another binary built within the Box  
Backup buildsystem?

Ben