Re: auto{conf,make} & DJGPP: DESTDIR

[Earnie Boyd]

Richard Dawe wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've ported autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2 to DJGPP, based on Tim van
> Holder's work.
>
> Unfortunately DESTDIR support is currently broken for DJGPP.
> The reason is that the generated Makefiles do things like
> $(DESTDIR)$(binprefix). $(binprefix) could be something like c:/djgpp/bin and
> $(DESTDIR) could be, say, d:/put/packages/here/. So $(DESTDIR)$(binprefix)
> becomes d:/put/packages/here/c:/djgpp/bin, which doesn't make sense.
>
> DJGPP supports referring to c: as /dev/c. So one possible solution to this
> problem is to ensure that $(prefix) and its derivatives are always mapped to
> /dev/<letter>/ paths from <letter>: paths. But where would this mapping take
> place? In autoconf alone? Or would both autoconf and automake require
> modification?

That sounds as if it's a modification to the way you define prefix 
during the configure process.  ./configure --prefix=/dev/c/djgpp.  But 
that still sounds bothersome when combining DESTDIR.  Check out: 
http;//www.mingw.org/msys.shtml for a Minimal SYStem alternative that 
can cope with this problem.  Curious, what does DJGPP return for ``uname 
-s''?

Earnie.