Support for conditional dependencies.

[pspp] / doc / gnulib.texi

diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index 82efeeab6575ae3ad7002cc42b18b8eb056fa02f..b59306ff7bd4fabcf97e4d1ca8aad52275ceb5c7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -396,6 +396,15 @@ Tests modules can depend on non-tests modules.  Non-tests modules should not
 depend on tests modules. (Recall that tests modules are built in a separate
 directory.)
 
+Each listed required module may be declared a conditional dependency.  This
+is indicated by placing the condition for the dependency on the same line,
+enclosed in brackets, after the name of the required module.  The condition
+is a shell expression that is run after the module's @code{configure.ac}
+statements.  For example:
+@smallexample
+strtoull   [test $ac_cv_func_strtoumax = no]
+@end smallexample
+
 @item configure.ac-early
 This field contains @file{configure.ac} stuff (Autoconf macro invocations and
 shell statements) that are logically placed early in the @file{configure.ac}
@@ -6496,6 +6505,7 @@ This list of functions is sorted according to the header that declares them.
 * Visual Studio Compatibility::
 * Supporting Relocation::
 * func::
+* configmake::
 * warnings::
 * manywarnings::
 * Running self-tests under valgrind::
@@ -6583,6 +6593,8 @@ ASCII characters.
 
 @include func.texi
 
+@include configmake.texi
+
 @include warnings.texi
 
 @include manywarnings.texi