Re: configure for authentication helper

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:44:34 -0600

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 14:08 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On sön, 2008-09-14 at 12:00 +0100, Markus Moeller wrote:
> > My squid_kerb_auth helper would benefit from a better Makefile. To do that
> > I created configure for the helper directory, but squid does not use
> > configure per directory. What is the right approach ? Include the configure
> > into the main configure ?
>
> We do support recursive configure. Used in squid-3 for some libraries.
>
> Personally I prefer recursive configure than to bloat the main configure
> with a lot of stuff not relevant to Squid itself.

Me too, even though Autoconf support for sub-configure scripts is
mediocre. See AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS in Squid3 configure.in for examples.

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Sun Sep 14 2008 - 22:45:35 MDT

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