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+dnl
+dnl If needed, define the m4_ifblank and m4_ifnblank macros from autoconf 2.64
+dnl This allows us to run with earlier Autoconfs as well.
+ifdef([m4_ifblank],[],[
+m4_define([m4_ifblank],
+[m4_if(m4_translit([[$1]], [ ][ ][
+]), [], [$2], [$3])])])
+dnl
+ifdef([m4_ifnblank],[],[
+m4_define([m4_ifnblank],
+[m4_if(m4_translit([[$1]], [ ][ ][
+]), [], [$3], [$2])])])
+dnl
+
+dnl AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS does not allow configure options to be passed
+dnl to subdirs, this function allows that by creating a configure.gnu
+dnl script that prepends configure options and then calls the real
+dnl configure script
+AC_DEFUN([AX_CONFIG_SUBDIR_OPTION],
+[
+AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([$1])
+
+m4_ifblank([$2], [rm -f $srcdir/$1/configure.gnu],
+[printf "#!/bin/sh
+"\$"SHELL "../$srcdir/$1/configure" $2 "\$"@" > "$srcdir/$1/configure.gnu"
+])
+])