ax_save_flags

Synopsis

AX_SAVE_FLAGS([NAMESPACE])

Description

Save common compilation flags into temporary variables.

Compilation flags includes: CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, OBJCFLAGS.

By default these flags are saved to a global (empty) namespace, but user could specify a specific NAMESPACE to AX_SAVE_FLAGS macro and latter restore it by using AX_RESTORE_FLAGS(NAMESPACE).

  AX_SAVE_FLAGS(mypackage)
  CPPFLAGS="-Imypackagespath ${CPPFLAGS}"
  dnl .. do some detection ...
  AX_RESTORE_FLAGS(mypackage)

Source Code

Download the latest version of ax_save_flags.m4 or browse the macro’s revision history.

License

Copyright © 2009 Filippo Giunchedi filippo@esaurito.net
Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Copyright © 2011 Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Copyright © 2013 Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bastien+autoconf@gmail.com

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