Bob Friesenhahn: > Yes. The only make-time override which has any business being used as > part of a formal build process is DESTDIR used with 'make install'. > Anything else is a hack. :-) You may think so, but this capability is a clearly-documented promised capability under the GNU standards. And a lot of people support it. I even have a lot of crufty sed invocations in a shell script written specifically to make this happen. So either one of the following needs to happen: 1. The GNU standards need to be modified so that this is no longer the expectation, and that configure-time is enough. I'm *okay* with that kind of change, but it needs to be actually changed, so that users know that this is no longer a reasonable expectation. 2. If the GNU standards stay as-is, the autotools need to make this easy to do, or many programs will continue to fail to do it correctly. --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
