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GNU Info (autoconf.info)Configuration HeadersConfiguration Header Files ========================== When a package tests more than a few C preprocessor symbols, the command lines to pass `-D' options to the compiler can get quite long. This causes two problems. One is that the `make' output is hard to visually scan for errors. More seriously, the command lines can exceed the length limits of some operating systems. As an alternative to passing `-D' options to the compiler, `configure' scripts can create a C header file containing `#define' directives. The `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' macro selects this kind of output. It should be called right after `AC_INIT'. The package should `#include' the configuration header file before any other header files, to prevent inconsistencies in declarations (for example, if it redefines `const'). Use `#include <config.h>' instead of `#include "config.h"', and pass the C compiler a `-I.' option (or `-I..'; whichever directory contains `config.h'). That way, even if the source directory is configured itself (perhaps to make a distribution), other build directories can also be configured without finding the `config.h' from the source directory. - Macro: AC_CONFIG_HEADER (HEADER-TO-CREATE ...) Make `AC_OUTPUT' create the file(s) in the whitespace-separated list HEADER-TO-CREATE containing C preprocessor `#define' statements, and replace `@DEFS@' in generated files with `-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' instead of the value of `DEFS'. The usual name for HEADER-TO-CREATE is `config.h'. If HEADER-TO-CREATE already exists and its contents are identical to what `AC_OUTPUT' would put in it, it is left alone. Doing this allows some changes in configuration without needlessly causing object files that depend on the header file to be recompiled. Usually the input file is named `HEADER-TO-CREATE.in'; however, you can override the input file name by appending to HEADER-TO-CREATE, a colon-separated list of input files. Examples: AC_CONFIG_HEADER(defines.h:defines.hin) AC_CONFIG_HEADER(defines.h:defs.pre:defines.h.in:defs.post) Doing this allows you to keep your file names acceptable to MS-DOS, or to prepend and/or append boilerplate to the file.
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