On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 08:09 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > <snip>
> > It was this bit in Makefile.am that seems odd to me:
> >
> > # these are for the config files and scripts that we need to generate
> > and replace
> > # the paths and other tokens with the real values set during
> > configure/make
> > # note that we cannot just use AC_OUTPUT to do this for us, since it
> > will do things like this:
> > # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ${prefix}/lib/fedora-ds
> > # i.e. it literally copies in '${prefix}' rather than expanding it out -
> > we want this instead:
> > # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib/fedora-ds
> > if BUNDLE
> > fixupcmd = sed \
> > -e 's,@bindir\@,$(bindir),g' \
> > -e 's,@sbindir\@,$(sbindir),g' \
> >
> >
> It seems odd because it is odd - but there is no other way to replace
> things like @localstatedir@, @sysconfdir@, @sbindir@, etc. in .in files
> that we use during the build. I don't know how other projects do this -
> perhaps they ignore the "mandated GNU coding standards" and just have
> ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} expanded during configure, and just let
> AC_CONFIG_FILES and AC_OUTPUT create all of the real files from their
> corresponding .in file.
I think so. The coding standard seems to imply that you must be able to
change the $prefix and $exec_prefix in the install, but that all
internal references must be as if they had *not* been changed. Perhaps
that's the clue?
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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