On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:05:00PM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote:
> right, but the thing is that IMHO you should be able to use a layout, and
> then override parts of it on the command line.
>
> that is the way things "should" be, and if they had been that way then
> this wouldn't break anything. And IMHO, other things are broken (eg. "use
> GNU layout but install into /foobar") even without the below change.
>
> So I think the task is to figure out how to make layouts and autoconf play
> more nicely, then that will fix this problem too. Figuring this out
> though... I can take a look, but I try to be as un-autoconf-y a person as
> possible.
I think that prefix should actually be an alternate to a layout. I can
see how you might want to override part of a layout with --bindir or
--sbindir or ... -- but prefix says to use the standard names as subdirs
and base them off the given directory afaict.
If you wanted to allow both prefix and layout, I think the think to do
would be to prefix all paths in the layout with whatever was given in
--prefix.
Anyway -- I'd guess that the thing to do in the short term is to revert
so that if layout isn't specified, Apache isn't used as the default. I
think the code probably does need reorganization, but it's sort of
broken right now (unless you're root when you install) ...
Btw -- I am willing to work on the autoconf stuff. It's kind of
annoying to debug 'cause the debug cycles take a while, but other than
that it's not too bad ...
cheers --
Ed
