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Re: hardcoded prefix in aclocal
From: |
Earnie Boyd |
Subject: |
Re: hardcoded prefix in aclocal |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:32:49 -0500 |
Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Autoconf team:
>
> I notice that the bin/aclocal script has the following two lines:
>
> $prefix = "/hardcoded/install/directory";
> $acdir = "${prefix}/share/aclocal";
>
> The "$acdir" is used to find config files that may be installed by
> other packages.
>
> This creates a problem in our environment...
>
> We have each package (autoconf, gettext, and libtool) are installed
> in each directory. Then we are using a program that makes a single
> directory tree with symbolic links to the various installed programs.
>
> So our system looks like this
>
> automake is installed in /install/automake
> gettext is installed in /install/gettext
> libtool is installed in /install/libtool
You want to
configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install prefix=/install/automake
Earnie.
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