Andrew Bartlett wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 08:09 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> It was this bit in Makefile.am that seems odd to me:
>>
>> # these are for the config files and scripts that we need to generate
>> and replace
>> # the paths and other tokens with the real values set during
>> configure/make
>> # note that we cannot just use AC_OUTPUT to do this for us, since it
>> will do things like this:
>> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ${prefix}/lib/fedora-ds
>> # i.e. it literally copies in '${prefix}' rather than expanding it out -
>> we want this instead:
>> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib/fedora-ds
>> if BUNDLE
>> fixupcmd = sed \
>> -e 's,@bindir\@,$(bindir),g' \
>> -e 's,@sbindir\@,$(sbindir),g' \
>>
>>
>>
> It seems odd because it is odd - but there is no other way to replace
> things like @localstatedir@, @sysconfdir@, @sbindir@, etc. in .in files
> that we use during the build. I don't know how other projects do this -
> perhaps they ignore the "mandated GNU coding standards" and just have
> ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} expanded during configure, and just let
> AC_CONFIG_FILES and AC_OUTPUT create all of the real files from their
> corresponding .in file.
>
I think so. The coding standard seems to imply that you must be able to
change the $prefix and $exec_prefix in the install, but that all
internal references must be as if they had *not* been changed.
So, let me see if I
understand what you're saying. Let's say I have
some .in files which have references to @prefix@ and @bindir@ (which is
${prefix}/bin). I run configure which creates realfile from realfile.in
- I don't pass in --prefix to configure, which means @prefix@ will
expand to "/usr" and @bindir@ to "/usr/bin" in realfile. Next, I run
make prefix=/myprefix install. realfile will still refer to "/usr" even
though I've told make to use "/myprefix" instead.
Where does it say or imply that? Isn't that what "make DESTDIR=/path
install" for?
Perhaps
that's the clue?
Andrew Bartlett
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