[GRASS5] configure.in Wants testers...

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Tue Nov 28 05:19:06 EST 2000


On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:15:39AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:46:15PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> > Would looking at a configure.in from another project be any use? It
> > seems that a lot of projects have /usr/local/bin as the default bindir.
> > What is the preset value? You may have already thought of this, it's
> > just an idea.
> 
> Well, the problem really seems to be with the way configure handles
> $bindir.  It is always set to something (at least here).  Also, my
> autoconf choked on the AC_BINDIR_DEFAULT() macro (claiming no such thing
> exists).  

I also cannot find AC_BINDIR_DEFAULT() in the autoconf 2.13 manual.
You might be able to write your own macro, though.

> $bindir is always apparently set to ${exec_prefix}/bin, and
> ${exec_prefix} is always set to ${prefix} (these are defaults).  

I think these are resonable defaults and we should not change them
anyway. 

I also vote for keep /usr/local/ als default prefix.
This is good, because if you really compile GRASS yourself, if should go
there and not to /usr .

> So I can't figure out how to have the --bindir command work, but use the
> /usr/local/bin as a default.  Piece of cake if I ignore --bindir and go
> back to using --with-bindir (as it was set-up before).

Please do not go back to the buggy behaviour. :)

> As far as the headers and libraries, does it work with the
> --with-tcltk-includes=[DIRs] --with-tcltk-libs=[DIRS] ?
> 
> Sorry I'm not better at this configure stuff.  I'm a lousy shell
> programmer to begin with ;)
> 
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> Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>
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