Hello Keith, * Keith Marshall wrote on Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:47:24PM CEST: [...] > AC_DEFINE_DIR broke when autoconf added `datarootdir', requiring an > extra round of `eval' to resolve `$datadir', for example. > > This sort of definition is fragile, for precisely this reason; it will > break again, if a future autoconf version chooses to add yet another > level of indirection, for some definition you just happen to want to > resolve, when you invoke its expansion in the configure script.
FWIW, just to set things a wee bit straighter: Autoconf "chose" to add the datarootdir indirection exactly because the GNU Coding Standards required this change. Cheers, and yes, you may call me nitpicker now, ;-) Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
