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ax_save_flags_with_prefix ¶

Synopsis ¶

AX_SAVE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX(PREFIX, LIST-OF-FLAGS)

Description ¶

For each flag in LIST-OF-FLAGS, it expands to lower-cased shell variable with the prefix holding the flag original value. The saved variables can be restored by AX_RESTORE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX

As an example: AX_SAVE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX([GL], [[CFLAGS],[LIBS]]) expands to

  gl_saved_flag_cflags="$CFLAGS"
  gl_saved_flag_libs="$LIBS"
  CFLAGS="$GL_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"
  LIBS="$GL_LIBS $LIBS"

One common use case is to define a package specific wrapper macro around this one, and also setup other variables if needed. For example:

  AC_DEFUN([_AX_CHECK_GL_SAVE_FLAGS], [
    AX_SAVE_FLAGS_WITH_PREFIX([GL],[$1])
    AC_LANG_PUSH([C])
  ])

  # pushes GL_CFLAGS and GL_LIBS to CFLAGS and LIBS
  # also set the current language to test to C
  _AX_CHECK_GL_SAVE_FLAGS([[CFLAGS],[LIBS]])

Source Code ¶

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License ¶

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