Hello, On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:42:28PM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > I know your objective with MSYS is to provide a minimal environment > for running `./configure && make', [...] > Surely, the better approach is to adapt autoconf, such that either > the AC_INIT setting of `ac_default_prefix' is more intelligent wrt > Win32 (or more specifically, MSYS) paths, [...] I agree here. > ac_default_prefix=`exec 2>/dev/null;cd /usr/local&&pwd -W` ||\ > ac_default_prefix=/usr/local This is a possible solution, but I'd like to propose something simpler: AC_INIT reads file config.site at its initialization file. So if the MSYS install process ensures that /usr/local/share/config.site is present and assigns ac_default_prefix, then everything should work. I hope this solution is acceptable to you. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf