A number of directories are either created or supplied as values to env
variables.
The Autoconf configure script describe the default values relative to the PREFIX
directory. The build.sh script interpreted that too literally and assumed that
the various directories (bin, lib, etc...) could not have a value other than
PREFIX/...
The net of it is that the build script cannot support scenarios where a bin
directory
would be /usr/bin while a datadir would be $HOME/share. This is possible when
configuring
a package using --bindir /usr/bin and --datadir $HOME/share.
In addition some values were squarely hard-coded such as "var" and "share"
which does not
reflect what you do with "configure".
Environment variables specific to build.sh:
PREFIX Install architecture-independent files in PREFIX [/usr/local]
Each module/components is invoked with --prefix
EPREFIX Install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX [PREFIX]
Each module/components is invoked with --exec-prefix
BINDIR Install user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
Each module/components is invoked with --bindir
DATAROOTDIR Install read-only arch-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
Each module/components is invoked with --datarootdir
DATADIR Install read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]
Each module/components is invoked with --datadir
LIBDIR Install object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
Each module/components is invoked with --libdir
LOCALSTATEDIR Modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
Each module/components is invoked with --localstatedir
Gaetan Nadon (8):
build.sh: expose the PREFIX variable for the user to set
build.sh: add support for EPREFIX for architecture-dependent files
build.sh: allow user to specify an alternate bin directory
build.sh: allow user to specify an alternate datadir
build.sh: allow user to specify an alternate localstatedir
build.sh: allow user to specify an alternate libdir
config: add user input checking for *DIR environment variables
build.sh: document the ACLOCAL env variable to find m4 macros
build.sh | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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