Re: Default for libexecdir

[John Burger]

> > I believe you want to do this:
> >
> >    libexecdir='${prefix}/lib'
> >
> > which will carry over unexpanded to your Makefiles, where prefix is
> > given a proper value.
>
> That would break the configure --libexecdir option, though.

I finally get it.  I think you're right, you cannot change the default 
values of the "standard" variables.  In some ways, Autoconf assumes 
that one is building a standard Gnu package, with all that entails 
about directory stricture and names.  There is some flexibility in this 
area, but not as much as one might like.

I think the only thing you could do is "edit" the value after AC_INIT 
happens, taking some care to check that the user didn't explicitly set 
it on the command line - I'm not sure how to do this without using 
internal details of the generated configure script ...

- John Burger
  MITRE