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Your distribution should contain a template file that looks as you want
the final header file to look, including comments, with #undef
statements which are used as hooks. For example, suppose your
`configure.ac' makes these calls:
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(conf.h) AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h)
Then you could have code like the following in `conf.h.in'. On
systems that have `unistd.h', configure will `#define'
`HAVE_UNISTD_H' to 1. On other systems, the whole line will be
commented out (in case the system predefines that symbol).
/* Define as 1 if you have unistd.h. */ #undef HAVE_UNISTD_H
You can then decode the configuration header using the preprocessor directives:
#include <conf.h> #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include <unistd.h> #else /* We are in trouble. */ #endif
The use of old form templates, with `#define' instead of `#undef' is strongly discouraged.
Since it is a tedious task to keep a template header up to date, you may
use autoheader to generate it, see section Using autoheader to Create `config.h.in'.
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