A further thought: On Thursday 01 December 2005 1:54 pm, I wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2005 6:40 am, Roesner Thomas wrote: > > thank you for the replie, "make DESTDIR=`pwd` install" works fine, but > > i´d like to omit the naming of the installpath in all commands. I´d > > prefer setting it within the configure.in or Makefile.am. > > You _could_ just say `prefix=""', in configure.in -- today, you should > really be using configure.ac, with autoconf 2.59 -- just before the > AC_OUTPUT. > > However, you really should not do this, as it completely breaks the > standard behaviour of the entire autotools system -- you are _supposed_ to > use configure's `--prefix=' option, to achieve what you are trying to do, > while still giving other users of your package the flexibility to do it as > they prefer. OTOH, if what you really want is a personal default setting for prefix, which differs from the normally assumed `/usr/local', then add the following to an appropriate config.site file -- either your own, specified in the CONFIG_SITE environment variable, or the host's central default file (which is normally /usr/local/share/config.site): ac_default_prefix=`pwd` (Or specify any suitable absolute path in place of `pwd`, if preferred). See the `Site Defaults' node, in autoconf's texinfo manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_node/autoconf_138.html Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
