How to leave space for the lib path

2012-05-16 Thread baxy77bax
Hi, I am learning to use automake tool to create my make files. and what i have seen from the examples on the net you can while creating the configure file somehow let some library paths unspecified and then specify them when running ./config --with-libget-prefix=/ Now when i create my M

Re: How to leave space for the lib path

2012-05-16 Thread Nick Bowler
Hello bax77bax, On 2012-05-16 09:39 -0700, baxy77bax wrote: > I am learning to use automake tool to create my make files. and what i have > seen from the examples on the net you can while creating the configure file > somehow let some library paths unspecified and then specify them when > running

Re: Don't distribute auto*tools output; do distribute autoreconf input

2012-05-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/10/2012 09:14 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: I want the people that receive my tarball to do autoreconf. Their system's autoconf-archive may be more up-to date than mine. This is a pretty questionable approach. In particular, this way, * you are forcing your users to install sufficiently compat