Hello Chad On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 03:27:44PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not sure whether it should be an "enable" option. Perhaps > > --directory-layout ? > > If it becomes part of the autoconf package itself, definitely. Since > it's currently (not created yet) supplementary, it should probably > retain the "--enable-FEATURE" syntax. I wanted to say that if you find time to develop this feature, I'd be glad if you could develop it as a patch for Autoconf itself. (There is no point telling the users about the feature and renaming it a few weeks later.) I hope there will be no protests against accepting it to Autoconf CVS. > > And yes, your reasoning against pkg*dir variables seems to be valid, > > at least in cases when your layout option is used. On a second thought, I think the pkg*dir variables are justified: if the maintainer thinks that the package contains so many data files that they should not be placed flat to $prefix/share, they decide to use pkgdatadir. The programs know to look at $datadir/package/ If the datadir happens to contain /package/, there is no problem with the extra level--the files are accessed by the program. Similarly with pkgincludedir, the headers are accessed by #include <package/header.h> and the preproseccor gets -I $includedir and this works uniformly, no matter whether includedir contains "/package/" or not. > `docdir' (and `pkgdocdir') for example. Most Linux distributions > store package documentation (COPYRIGHT, README, contrib scripts, > examples, etc.) in `/usr/share/doc/pkgname/' directories. This is a different case: the docs are accessed mostly by the user, not the program, so /usr/share/doc/pkgname/pkgname/ would be really annoying. The decision which $docdir shoudl be used for which package is completely up to the distribution builder. And it helps to know that the package doesn't add it's own "/pkgname/" suffix. To sum up, I believe the situation about pkg*dir can be left as is, after all. But I'm looking forward to the --directory-layout patch! ;-) Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
