Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: avoid screening of --{en, dis}able-usb-redir options

[Max Filippov]

>>> In fact, what cases is this supposed to be matching? All
>>> the documented --thingydir options are handled explicitly
>>> earlier in the case statement.
>>>
>>> Paolo, you added this case in commit 6bde81cb0, but the
>>> commit message doesn't give any rationale; what's it for?
>>
>> There were some --*dir that are supported by Autoconf and
>> not by QEMU configure.  The aim was to let QEMU packagers
>> use the rpm (or similar) macro that overrides directories
>> for their distribution.
>
> Ah. Can we list them explicitly with a comment about why
> we accept but ignore them, please?

I guess the list is the following:

  --mandir=PATH            install man pages in PATH
  --datadir=PATH           install firmware in PATH
  --docdir=PATH            install documentation in PATH
  --bindir=PATH            install binaries in PATH
  --sysconfdir=PATH        install config in PATH/qemu

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Configuration.html says
that it should also handle the following list:

--bindir --sbindir --libexecdir --sysconfdir
--sharedstatedir --localstatedir --libdir --includedir --oldincludedir
--datarootdir --datadir --infodir --localedir --mandir --docdir
--htmldir --dvidir --pdfdir --psdir

Do we need anything of these?

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max