I work on the enlightenment project and this occurs when build any of
their packages. A specific example of the problem is in the Embryo
library:
http://e.kevb.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/e17/libs/embryo/configure.in?
rev=1.37&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Let me know if you need anything else.
-Blake
On May 22, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
[ Cc:ing bug-autoconf ]
Hi Blake,
* Blake Barnett wrote on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:21:19PM CEST:
Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1
Severity: important
If configure.in uses ${datadir} for some reason this version of
autoconf tries to replace it with ${datarootdir}, the variable
doesn't
get replaced (strace proves this).
Downgrading to version 2.59a-9 resolves this.
Thanks for the bug report. This is documented, see NEWS, and due to
changes in the GNU Coding Standards.
That said, we've tried to ensure some backward compatibility and put
some measure in place that should try to not do the replacement if it
looks unsafe.
Could you show the specific example where and how it fails, so we can
reproduce this?
Thanks,
Ralf
