Guido Draheim wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> yes.
>
> Just reiterating the link to the macro that I add regularly to
> configure.ac
> http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/guidod/ac_set_default_paths_system.html
>
> The main trick is to modify only the default-path (!!) of the
> libdirpath and therefore let the user be free to override it on the
> commandline. When a user has overridden the bindirpath then "../bin"
> might simply be the wrong choice as it would not end up near the
> binary nor in the $PATH.
>
> libdir=`echo $libdir |sed -e 's:^..exec_prefix./lib$:${bindir}:'`
>
> perhaps add a similar thing to the libtool m4 macro, no?

I don't think this is the same issue at all. The problem is that libtool
needs to install _2_ files, and is (at the moment) only given the
destination of one of them.

Max.



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