From: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:18:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak
Message-ID: <20060629071813.GB1127@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200606290301.51657.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> This is beginning of patch series introducing installation configuration
> using autoconf (and no other autotools) to git. The idea is to generate
> config.mak using ./configure (generated from configure.ac) from
> config.mak.in, so one can use autoconf as an _alternative_ to ordinary
> Makefile, and creating one's own config.mak.
> 
> This patch includes minimal configure.ac and config.mak.in, so one 
> can set installation directories using ./configure script
> e.g. ./configure --prefix=/usr

autoconf does to much things, even with that little configure.ac.  (But
I agree, it's much better than automake :-)

E.g.

	./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --mandir=$HOME/usr/share/man

is supported by the configure script, but the manpages are installed in
$HOME/usr/man all the same.

BTW: Even if I specify mandir=... in config.mak, it is not respected,
because only the toplevel Makefile includes config.mak.  (I didn't test
it, but I think I could export mandir in config.mak ...)

Best regards
Uwe

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