Earnie Boyd wrote: > 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.
So we use bindir, and arrange to fall back to "../bin" >> 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. So we conditionalize all this so it only activates on Windows. > Would bindir be an environment variable if libtool is being executed > from make? Unfortunately not. > If not, setting a variable in the libtool.m4 that > configure sets works. Unfortunately not - "make install bindir=/alternatelocation". > I prefer that over a switch, with a default > value for the variable of ../bin. I think that a switch is the only way, if we are to deal with the case I cite above. Max. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
