ac_prefix_config_h

takes the usual config.h generated header file; looks for each of the generated "#define SOMEDEF" lines, and prefixes the defined name (ie. makes it "#define PREFIX_SOMEDEF". The result is written to the output config.header file. The PREFIX is converted to uppercase for the conversions. If PREFIX is absent, $PACKAGE will be assumed. If the ORIG-HEADER is absent, "config.h" will be assumed. If the OUTPUT-HEADER is absent, "PREFIX-config.h" will be assumed.

In most cases, the configure.in will contain a line saying

        AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)

somewhere *before* AC_OUTPUT and a simple line saying

       AC_PREFIX_CONFIG_HEADER

somewhere *after* AC_OUTPUT.

example:

  AC_INIT(config.h.in)        # config.h.in as created by "autoheader"
  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(testpkg, 0.1.1)   # "#undef VERSION" and "PACKAGE"
  AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)         #                in config.h.in
  AC_MEMORY_H                        # "#undef NEED_MEMORY_H"
  AC_C_CONST_H                       # "#undef const"
  AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)                # creates the "config.h" now
  AC_PREFIX_CONFIG_H                 # creates "testpkg-config.h"
        and the resulting "testpkg-config.h" contains lines like
  #define TESTPKG_VERSION "0.1.1"
  #define TESTPKG_NEED_MEMORY_H 1
  #define TESTPKG_const const

  and this "testpkg-config.h" can be installed along with other
  header-files, which is most convenient when creating a shared
  library (that has some headers) where some functionality is
  dependent on the OS-features detected at compile-time. No
  need to invent some "testpkg-confdefs.h.in" manually. :-)

AC_DEFUN([AC_PREFIX_CONFIG_H],
[changequote(<<, >>)dnl
ac_prefix_conf_PKG=`echo ifelse($1, , $PACKAGE, $1)`
ac_prefix_conf_PRE=`echo $ac_prefix_conf_PKG | tr 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-' 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_'`
ac_prefix_conf_PRE=`echo $ac_prefix_conf_PRE | sed -e '/^[0-9]/s/^/_/'`
ac_prefix_conf_INP=`echo ifelse($2, , config.h, $2)`
ac_prefix_conf_OUT=`echo ifelse($3, , $ac_prefix_conf_PKG-$ac_prefix_conf_INP, $3)`
ac_prefix_conf_DEF=`echo _$ac_prefix_conf_OUT | tr 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz./,-' 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ____'`
changequote([, ])dnl
if test -z "$ac_prefix_conf_PKG" ; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([no prefix for _PREFIX_CONFIG_H])
else
  AC_MSG_RESULT(creating $ac_prefix_conf_OUT - prefix $ac_prefix_conf_PRE for $ac_prefix_conf_INP defines)
  if test -f $ac_prefix_conf_INP ; then
    echo '#ifndef '$ac_prefix_conf_DEF >$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo '#define '$ac_prefix_conf_DEF' 1' >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo ' ' >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo /'*' $ac_prefix_conf_OUT. Generated automatically at end of configure. '*'/ >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT

    echo 's/#undef  */#undef '$ac_prefix_conf_PRE'_/' >conftest.sed
    echo 's/#define  *\([A-Za-z0-9_]*\)\(.*\)/#ifndef '$ac_prefix_conf_PRE"_\\1 \\" >>conftest.sed
    echo '#define '$ac_prefix_conf_PRE"_\\1 \\2 \\" >>conftest.sed
    echo '#endif/' >>conftest.sed
    sed -f conftest.sed $ac_prefix_conf_INP >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo ' ' >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo '/*' $ac_prefix_conf_DEF '*/' >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
    echo '#endif' >>$ac_prefix_conf_OUT
  else
    AC_MSG_ERROR([input file $ac_prefix_conf_IN does not exist, dnl
    skip generating $ac_prefix_conf_OUT])
  fi
  rm -f conftest.*
fi])

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