* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:32PM CET: > > Why does autoconf not support --lispdir automatically? That is the one > case in make-stds.texi that has to call out that the user has to do an > AC_SUBST; should we patch autoconf to automatically support lispdir > alongside all the other standardized directory locations?
Well, that should first have a GCS change. Since every such GCS change creates a small incompatibility (package trees using mixed autotools versions may not cope with a --lispdir passed from toplevel), such changes should not be done lightly, and maybe batched. If you choose to go that way: Another thing to think about in this case is whether we want something like --sharedlibdir. It could default to bindir on w32 systems and libdir everywhere else, and would be the intended location for the DLL/.so files (and could make for a nicer libtool solution that -bindir). The suggestion came from Niels Möller (Cc:ed) on a non-public list. Thanks, Ralf