Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

[Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:

> I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm
> stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command
> conditionally install some files.

Well, here's what one of my projects do:

configure.in:
...
AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, initscr)
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_LIBNCURSES, test "$ac_cv_lib_ncurses_initscr" = yes)
...

Makefile.am:
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
if HAVE_LIBNCURSES
NCURSES_CLIENT = ncurses-client
else
NCURSES_CLIENT =
endif
bin_PROGRAMS = $(NCURSES_CLIENT) ...other-clients...
...