making subprojects

[Andy Falanga (afalanga)]

I know that I found this once before but am not getting the searches
right. I'm wondering how to incorporate other autotools projects into
my own. The project I'm working on has a dependency on a very recent
version of libusb1. There aren't RPMs available for this version for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So, we need to build/distribute the library
with our own. We don't actually want to install libusb1 but simply
build the library and link our stuff with it statically. How do I
structure things in the configure.ac or Makefile.am files accordingly so
tha

[Alberto Luaces]

Post by Andy Falanga (afalanga)
I know that I found this once before but am not getting the searches
right. I'm wondering how to incorporate other autotools projects into
my own. The project I'm working on has a dependency on a very recent
version of libusb1. There aren't RPMs available for this version for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. So, we need to build/distribute the library
with our own. We don't actually want to install libusb1 but simply
build the library and link our stuff with it statically. How do I
structure things in the configure.ac or Makefile.am files accordingly so
that it will happen?

Do you mean "nested packages"?

https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Nested-Packages.html