On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:49:40AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:49:57AM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote: > > Hi! > > > > [BTW, this would be more appropriate for the autoconf list.] > > and then configure outputs Makefile with substitutions: > > libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib/${PACKAGE} > > Why doesn't it output this? > > libexecdir = /usr/local/lib/foopackage
This behavior of configure is explained in the Autoconf manual, in the section that documents these variables. (Alternatively, search for the string "It is deliberate" :))