> Since I'm not an erlang user, I'll leave it to your judgment which is
> more useful. But for backwards compatibility, I'd prefer a patch along
> the lines of the former (better to change the docs to match reality,
> than to change reality and break configure.ac that happened to depend on
> the old semantics).
>
Here's a patch. Should I send it to autoconf-patches instead?
I license this patch under the GFDL. The commit message is public domain.
--David
commit b1005a543347f39c9b78ce17d86afb59a1de71ad
Author: David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com>
Date: Tue May 11 11:02:20 2010 -0700
Correct documentation for AC_ERLANG_SUBST_INSTALL_LIB_DIR
Previously, the docs incorrectly stated that the default value was
$ERLANG_LIB_DIR. The default has always been $libdir/erlang/lib (at
least as far as the git repo goes back).
I didn't wrap the second isntance in a @code{} operator because it added
some ugly extra quotes in the .info generated docs.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index d6a08bc..8423b86 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -8360,8 +8360,7 @@ Set the @code{ERLANG_INSTALL_LIB_DIR} output variable to
the directory into
which every built Erlang library should be installed in a separate
subdirectory.
If this variable is not set in the environment when @command{configure} runs,
-its default value is @code{$ERLANG_LIB_DIR}, which value is set by the
-...@code{ac_erlang_subst_lib_dir} macro.
+its default value is @code{$libdir/erlang/lib}.
@end defmac
@defmac AC_ERLANG_SUBST_INSTALL_LIB_SUBDIR (@var{library}, @var{version})
@@ -8372,9 +8371,7 @@ Set the @samp{erlang_install_lib_d...@var{library}}
output variable to the
directory into which the built Erlang library @var{library} version
@var{version} should be installed. If this variable is not set in the
environment when @command{configure} runs, its default value is
-...@samp{$erlang_install_lib_dir/@var{librar...@var{version}}, the value of the
-...@code{erlang_install_lib_dir} variable being set by the
-...@code{ac_erlang_subst_install_lib_dir} macro.
+...@samp{$libdir/erlang/lib/@var{librar...@var{version}}.
@end defmac
