>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> Akim Demaille writes:
>> This behavior is mandated by the GNU coding standards, so that when
>> the user runs:
>>
>> `make' she can still specify a different prefix from the one
>> specified to `configure', in which case, if needed, the package
>> shall hard code dependencies to her late desires.
Peter> I fail to find the section of the GNU standards where this is
Peter> mandated.
Couldn't find it either, but it's somewhere in there. Not directly,
but via the statement that
./configure
make prefix=foo all
is the same as
./configure --prefix=foo
make all
>> A corollary is that you should not use these variables but in
>> Makefiles. For instance, instead of trying to evaluate `datadir'
>> in `configure' and hardcoding it in Makefiles using e.g.
>> `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DATADIR, "$datadir")', you should add
>> `-DDATADIR="$(datadir)"' to your `CFLAGS'.
Peter> That should be CPPFLAGS.
Thanks!
