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Outputting Files

Every Autoconf-generated configure script must finish by calling AC_OUTPUT. It is the macro that generates `config.status', which will create the `Makefile's and any other files resulting from configuration. The only other required macro is AC_INIT (see section Finding configure Input).

Macro: AC_OUTPUT
Generate `config.status' and launch it. Call this macro once, at the end of `configure.ac'.

`config.status' will take all the configuration actions: all the output files (see section Creating Configuration Files, macro AC_CONFIG_FILES), header files (see section Configuration Header Files, macro AC_CONFIG_HEADERS), commands (see section Running Arbitrary Configuration Commands, macro AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS), links (see section Creating Configuration Links, macro AC_CONFIG_LINKS), subdirectories to configure (see section Configuring Other Packages in Subdirectories, macro AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS) are honored.

Historically, the usage of AC_OUTPUT was somewhat different. See section Obsolete Macros, for a description of the arguments that AC_OUTPUT used to support.

If you run make on subdirectories, you should run it using the make variable MAKE. Most versions of make set MAKE to the name of the make program plus any options it was given. (But many do not include in it the values of any variables set on the command line, so those are not passed on automatically.) Some old versions of make do not set this variable. The following macro allows you to use it even with those versions.

Macro: AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
If make predefines the variable MAKE, define output variable SET_MAKE to be empty. Otherwise, define SET_MAKE to contain `MAKE=make'. Calls AC_SUBST for SET_MAKE.

To use this macro, place a line like this in each `Makefile.in' that runs MAKE on other directories:

@SET_MAKE@


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