On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 14:43 -0800, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > I would recommend using something like configure > --prefix=/usr/local/elfutils --program-prefix=eu- > to install under /usr/local/elfutils and have all programs start with > eu-... so they don't clash with any existing ones. > > And speaking of that... what about setting the program-prefix to eu- by > default? > > Almost no one wants the elfutils to replace binutils, but to complement > them. But that can happen by accident very easily with the default > program names. > > Also, we are so used to use eu-stack and the other eu-* commands that > using stack, etc feels weird :) > > What you people think?
Good idea. How about the following patch? Cheers, Mark
From b10e6ad85dd03ec900280d7383f62f4ad529237b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:04:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] config: Use --program-prefix=eu- by default. We want eu- as default program prefix if none was given by the user. But if the user explicitly provided --program-prefix="" then pretend it wasn't set at all (NONE). This makes sure all tools will be installed as eu-<program>. We want this default since most tools would normally conflict with the GNU binutils variants that have similar names. Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ NEWS | 5 +++++ configure.ac | 13 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 07b525c..9661977 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-03-02 Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> + + * configure.ac: Set program_prefix to eu- by default. + * NEWS (0.166): New sections, document --program-prefix default. + 2016-02-13 Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com> * configure.ac: Add check for whether gcc accepts -Wnull-dereference. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 53fe364..1a55d3a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Version 0.166 + +config: The default program prefix for the installed tools is now eu-. + Use configure --program-prefix="" to not use a program prefix. + Version 0.165 elfcompress: New utility to compress or decompress ELF sections. diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index df58b5b..dd510a0 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ dnl You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License dnl along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. AC_INIT([elfutils],[0.165],[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/],[elfutils]) +# We want eu- as default program prefix if none was given by the user. +# But if the user explicitly provided --program-prefix="" then pretend +# it wasn't set at all (NONE). We want to test this really early before +# configure has a chance to use the value. + +if test "x$program_prefix" = "xNONE"; then + AC_MSG_NOTICE([No --program-prefix given, using "eu-"]) + program_prefix="eu-" +elif test "x$program_prefix" = "x"; then + AC_MSG_NOTICE([Using no program-prefix]) + program_prefix=NONE +fi + AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([config/Makefile]) -- 1.8.3.1
