Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>I floated an idea on how to get around that: Adjust the libtool invocation >>command (as determined in libtool.m4) to be "libtool --bindir=$(bindir)" (or >>perhaps with appropriate quoting). The idea being that when used from an >>autoconf-based makefile (is it even possible to do otherwise, now there is >>no ltconfig?), the make variable bindir is passed on to libtool. Kludgy, >>yes, but better than ../bin. Of course, libtool would need to detect an >>invalid bindir and fall back on ../bin. I haven't fully worked this through >>yet, though, as I've just started university, so am a bit busy, and to top >>it off, my hard drive is making loud clicking noises and bluescreening my >>laptop from time to time. > > > Be very careful about your assumptions! Libtool is certainly usable > all by itself and may be used to install packages into a different > directory from the one it is installed in. Libtool only needs > autoconf in order to be installed, and is delivered from the FSF as a > configurable stand-alone package. In a perfect world, every system > would come with a perfectly working libtool, and packages wouldn't > need to worry about including it, or configuring it. >
So what! The FSF standard is to use $(bindir) for binary installation. It even states this in the make documentation. > The idea of supporting a --bindir option is tempting, but then > 'libtool --mode=install' stops looking like a simple install program, > and in fact, the --bindir option would need to be passed for several > different phases of libtool operation since it would influence the > content of the library.la file. Since Windows may be the only OS > benefiting from this, we could have a case of the tail wagging the > dog. > Would bindir be an environment variable if libtool is being executed from make? If not, setting a variable in the libtool.m4 that configure sets works. I prefer that over a switch, with a default value for the variable of ../bin. If bindir is passed to libtool through the environment then use ../bin if bindir isn't present. Earnie. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
