%% Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ao> On Sep 5, 2000, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My proposal is that if you do just `make install' then the default for
>> prefix and sysconfdir (and maybe some other variables) should be the
>> same as now. But `make install standard_system=yes' would use
>> different system-specific defaults for prefix and sysconfdir (and
>> maybe some other variables).
ao> In this case, this is totally out of the scope of autoconf, since
ao> autoconf doesn't deal with Makefiles. Besides, since some `make's
ao> fail to propagate command-line settings down to sub-makes, this
ao> would be unlikely to work on most systems that don't use GNU make
ao> by default. Maybe we don't care.
It _can_ be done with traditional make, but it's kind of gross.
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