Re: Why does ./configure not set prefix and exec_prefix?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 19, 2000, Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Has anyone come up a reason why setting the ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix}
> variables at the top of ./configure would be bad?

I think the point is to be able to tell whether it was the user who
chose /usr/local or if it's going to be used just because it is the
general default, so that a package maintainer could override it.  Of
course, we have AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT and AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM, that current
rely on that, but I'm sure we could use an auxiliary variable to tell
these macros whether the user specified --prefix or not, but who knows
what other macros out there rely upon these variables being set to
NONE?

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