-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Keith Marshall on 2/7/2008 3:57 PM: | On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:09, Paul Smith wrote: |> It would be really nice for autoconf to have a standard "--use-fhs" |> flag or similar that would set all the path variables properly for |> FHS. | | Wouldn't `--enable-fhs' be a better fit with the GCS dictum on how | `--enable-*' and `--use-*' options are to be applied? I think the idea has merit; it seems like we would provide a macro AC_ENABLE_FHS, which if invoked, will add the --enable-fhs ./configure-time option (or should we provide --enable-fhs unconditionally?). If the user uses --enable-fhs, it would populate all of the directory variables according to FHS, but could still be overridden by later directory names, so: ./configure --enable-fhs --docdir=$HOME/doc would be possible. Users that don't pass --enable-fhs would fall back to the existing defaults of a hierarchy completely under /usr/local/. Now, does anyone care to write the patch? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHq8Al84KuGfSFAYARAkzfAJ4u/CMJhhX5Qx1AfVcoSQRVBEss+gCgmQsm USnlNPCbN4JjrjXQpruJdzE= =w65Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
