>>>>> "George" == George R Goffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> Howdy (bonjour), Hi, Please, always write to project lists, not people. George> I'm continually having problems building code that uses George> autoconf (configure) and I was wondering if my idea to resolve George> this would work and be accepted by the "world". George> I build versioned code based on the os level (i.e., George> /usr/lsd/SunOS.5.8). Currently I'm supporting several solaris George> versions but I have also done this for linux and IRIX. The George> problem I have is that I try to build software and would like George> very much to get the configure script to look always in the George> --prefix= location first for the tools/utilities that it uses George> or maybe I could provide configure with a specific set of George> search locations in a file (?) I may have other versions of George> these "things" on my system and would like to be able to use George> the ones I want to use. prefix is really a different beast. You should browse the Autoconf documentation and look for config.site, and set the proper variables there if you want to avoid specify CFLAGS, LDFLAGS etc. each time. George> Right now, I have a binutils distribution in my /usr/local George> which breaks other software that I use or build. What I have George> to do is rename the /usr/local directory before building/using George> the software. To say the least, this is rather inelegant.
