[PATCH] configure: Add new --enable-install-elfh option.

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 09:54:53AM +0000, Ulf Hermann wrote:
> > Yes, it should indeed.
> > I used a slightly different solution though.
> > It relies on the default include flags already including the srcdirs.
> > Does that work for your use case too? (See revised patch attached.)
> 
> I'm not an expert in autotools. The reason I also have "else" case in my 
> code is that I want to do "+=" in the USE_GNULIB case below. That only 
> works if system_elf_libelf_test_CPPFLAGS is defined, which curiously it 
> is not if you don't explicitly set it before (even though it is 
> implicitly there somehow ... ?!?).
> 
> In particular I get the following error from autoconf if I naively merge 
> your patch:
> 
> > Ulf@Ulf-PC MINGW64 /d/elfutils$ autoreconf -fi
> > tests/Makefile.am:617: error: cannot apply '+=' because 'system_elf_libelf_test_CPPFLAGS' is not defined in
> > tests/Makefile.am:617: the following conditions:
> > tests/Makefile.am:617:   INSTALL_ELFH and USE_GNULIB
> > tests/Makefile.am:617: either define 'system_elf_libelf_test_CPPFLAGS' in these conditions, or use
> > tests/Makefile.am:617: '+=' in the same conditions as the definitions.
> > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> 
> As this only applies to my code, you are of course free to apply your 
> version upstream. It probably makes no difference if the USE_GNULIB case 
> isn't there. I will adapt my code then.

That makes sense. I added the else to explicitly set it:

diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 4c4af7843..1b0c7d333 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -598,6 +598,8 @@ addsections_LDADD = $(libelf)
 # Don't include any -I CPPFLAGS. Except when we install our own elf.h.
 if !INSTALL_ELFH
 system_elf_libelf_test_CPPFLAGS =
+else
+system_elf_libelf_test_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/libelf
 endif
 system_elf_libelf_test_LDADD = $(libelf)

Pushed with that change.

Thanks,

Mark