On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:15, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:27 PM, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 17:03 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >>>> You mean we should introduce a: --slibdir=/lib option, instead of >>>> using --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""? >>> >>> Yeah, I think so. Wouldn't it be more logical? >> >> He, the --exec-prefix="" thing works fine for udev, because it has no >> binaries in /usr. :) That's not a generally useful approach for >> others. >> >>> I guess, what I'm saying >>> is that it would be useful if no options was needed for configure for >>> the default use (building packages and hacking on an udev version that >>> overwrites package supplied files). >> >> That we could do today already with setting the defaults to >> --prefix=/usr and --exec-prefix=. > > Just in case you're wondering how to detect this: > > AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT([/usr]) > test "$prefix" = NONE && test "$exec_prefix" = NONE && exec_prefix= > > Then if I said, --prefix=/just/testing, $exec_prefix will follow like > it normally would. Sounds good. I added that. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
