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author | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2008-10-18 14:40:56 +0200 |
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committer | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2008-10-18 14:40:56 +0200 |
commit | 61b66d572b08da5bd671cf53f819cf05172d6cdf (patch) | |
tree | f8eb116baba4f478a1d59d6540fac81b08c2d8d0 | |
parent | c6b172ee196b189c4074f5e623f22d9b47decb6f (diff) | |
download | autoconf-61b66d572b08da5bd671cf53f819cf05172d6cdf.tar.gz |
Show how to extract single substitutions from config.status.
* doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Show example
using `--file=-'.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/autoconf.texi | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-10-18 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + Show how to extract single substitutions from config.status. + * doc/autoconf.texi (config.status Invocation): Show example + using `--file=-'. + 2008-10-17 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Add m4_curry. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 3078869a..a6bcb341 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -19100,7 +19100,14 @@ Doing so can be useful if some of the packages need a superset of the features that one of them, perhaps a common library, does. These options allow a @file{config.status} file to create files other than the ones that its @file{configure.ac} specifies, so it can be used for a -different package. +different package, or for extracting a subset of values. For example, + +@example +echo '@@CC@@' | ./config.status --file=- +@end example + +@noindent +provides the value of @code{@@CC@@} on standard output. @item --header=@var{file}[:@var{template}] Same as @option{--file} above, but with @samp{AC_CONFIG_HEADERS}. |