>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Personally, I'm somewhat annoyed to see yet more paths going into >> Autoconf that I'll then have to override to get the installation >> paths that I want (namely a flat tree of bin, sbin, lib, man, info, >> and etc); with over five hundred packages installed that way and >> using automated tools to maintain Stanford's shared software tree, >> I have no intention at the present time of changing our package >> layout. But I suppose I can always continue to override all the >> individual paths like I already have to do for sharedstatedir, >> libexecdir, and datadir. (Of course, GNU gettext has a habit of >> blissfully ignoring the datadir setting given at configure time in >> favor of hard-coding share. And I'm not sure anything actually >> uses sharedstatedir and libexecdir except Emacs.) Thomas> The changes here for the GNU Coding Standards (which I'm Thomas> proposing, and RMS has now agreed to) will not add any new Thomas> paths, it will simply change some that currently exist. Could someone summarize these changes? I have not seen them in standards.texi, although I just updated them :( Can someone point me to where Autoconf ought to be adjusted?
