On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I'm not sure I understand. With this config.site file, you still have to `./configure --prefix=/usr' in order for the changes to apply. But then, even without the config.site file, users will generally overwrite packages tools.
That is a good point. In that case, then having the pre-installed config.site under /usr/share is a good idea since at least it assures that files go in the same general places as the existing install.
Of course I agree that default config.site files are problematic for the plain reason that they alter behavior in a way not documented by --help.
Yes, I recall that at one time MinGW's MSYS included a config.site which was designed to tweak the settings for one particular version of libtool. The CONFIG_SITE variable was set by default to use it. It caused more harm than good.
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