[Nagiosplug-devel] INSTALL and INSTALLING

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:31, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> 	Actually I would think creation of a m4/ subdirectory might be
> a better solution for just the m4 files as they are only need'd when
> running the auto* utilities... I had thought about breaking some of the
> things we have in the configure.in currently into seperate AC_DEFUN()
> that could be called... I already started a lil of that when I added to
> the acinclude.m4 for the gethostbyname and getaddrinfo checks... These
> could actually be placed in a directory and just included through the -I
> option...
> 
> 	The advantage of doing this would be to trim down the actual
> content of the configure.in so that it was only calling the necessary
> functions that could be maintained in seperate files... Specially when
> you look at what has had to be done to the configure.in to test for
> ICMPv6 support...

I think modularozation is good. My personal preference, however, is to
toss the resulting m4 files in lib. But it's not a strong prefernce.

--
Karl