Re: Explanation needed?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Reuben Thomas on 2/23/2009 7:34 AM:
> > In the node "Installation Directory Variables" the following makefile
> > fragment is given as an example:
> >
> >      edit = sed \
> >              -e 's|@address@hidden|$(pkgdatadir)|g' \
> >              -e 's|@address@hidden|$(prefix)|g'
>
> Thanks for spotting this.  It looks like the example has confusing datadir
> with pkgdatadir since Jul 2000, even before GNU Coding Standards added
> pkgdatadir as a mandatory variable.  I'll work on a patch to make it
> consistent.

But it's not wrong, in the sense that it does reflect the actual code in 
autoconf!

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