[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] handle nesting of vars in configure.in properly

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> Would you consider the GNU coding standards (as they describe
> Makefiles) relevant?  After all, that's sort of what autoconf and
> automake are primarily targeted for.

It's not a complete picture, but yes.

> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > If you use DESTDIR, as Derrick and Sam have both suggested (and is
> > really the FSF defined mechanism to modify the install-root) then you
> > don't have to worry about this problem, and you DO get the semantics
> > you want.
> 
> Are you sure?

These weren't the semantics he described wanting, though. He wanted a tree
which looked like
/etc/openafs/foo
/usr/sbin/bar
which he could arbitrarily relocate, at least as I read it. This is a
different problem:

> $ ./configure --prefix=/afs/mycell.com/foo
> $ make all
> $ make install prefix=/afs/.mycell.com/foo

In any case the patches he submitted have been applied on the basis that
there's no real problem with including that support, and they will be in
the next release.

-D