On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:12:06AM +0200, Robert Schuster wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > from the debate about java.util.logging.LogManager I stepped upon a > small oddity with our configure script: > > 1) Gentoo configures gnu classpath with > ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu > - --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share > - --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-jni > - --enable-gtk-peer --enable-xmlj --prefix=/usr/share/gnu-classpath > - --with-jikes=/usr/bin/jikes > > Sharp eyes will see that the line contains --prefix two times: > > ./configure *--prefix=/usr* --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu > - --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share > - --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-jni > - --enable-gtk-peer --enable-xmlj *--prefix=/usr/share/gnu-classpath* > - --with-jikes=/usr/bin/jikes > > This is obviously a bug in gentoo's installation script and I am going > to fix it. However the interesting bit is, that our configure script > takes the value of (the 2nd) --prefix and puts it to > gnu.classpath.Configuration.CLASSPATH_HOME as "/usr/share/gnu-classpath" > on Gentoo. > > At installation time glibj.zip goes to /usr/share (datadir I suppose) > but the JNI libraries are installed to /usr/lib/classpath and I suppose > it used the first version of --prefix for this. > > Is there a possibility to make configure cry out loud when it is misused > in such a way?
Afaik not in our stuff. You need to fix autoconf itself to not allow this. Cu, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
