Hello Adriaan, * Adriaan van Os wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:43:36AM CEST: > In Autoconf, in lib/autoconf/general.m4, there is a code fragment that > checks to "Be sure to have absolute directory names".
Yes. And that check is checking for a string that can easily be detected as absolute directory name; not because the semantics of a library installation directory may happen to be that way, but because otherwise things like prepending DESTDIR won't work. > Therefore, the check for an absolute pathname for libdir in the above code > fragment is wrong. No, this bug is a non-issue for Autoconf: it's not the right place to change this. For Libtool, matters are slightly different: Libtool has a limitation to not allow relocatable packages (which is what you're after, after all). This may be fixed eventually, but even in that case I don't think --libdir @... will be allowed for configure; instead, some other mechanism should be employed. (Don't hold your breath, fixing this in Libtool is a lot of work.) Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
