I noted this message still lying around in my autotools folder... * Jim Lynch wrote on Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:43:17AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Jim Lynch wrote on Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:46:04PM CEST: > > > >> I'm trying to figure out how to add a file to be installed in > >> $prefix/bin/lib.
> > Why in the world would you want that? (Honest question!) > > > > Wouldn't it be enough if you used $(libdir), and told your users > > that if they want to shoot themselves mildly in the foot, they could > > still use > > ./configure --bindir=/some/where/bin --libdir=/some/where/bin/lib > > ? > The reason is that we were given a java program by a vendor that > requires files to be placed in a lib directory in the same directory as > the java program. We try to keep all of our binary executables in the > same place, namely /usr/local/bin. Hence the need for a > /usr/local/bin/lib directory. I agree it's not ideal, but we have to > work with what we get. Hmm, ok. In that case I'd probably go with putting everything below libexecdir and providing symlinks in bindir, but anyway I think Andreas provided you with a solution in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/7737/focus=7740> Cheers, Ralf
