Re: Default for libexecdir

[Bill Moseley]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:

As I don't know where else to ask, I'll ask again...

> 
> Our project wants to install some helper scripts that are called from our
> main program.
> 
> We want to use libexecdir so that it can be overridden with --libexecdir
> option to configure.  But, we want the default to be in
> ${prefix}/lib/${PACKAGE}/, or I guess really ${libdir}/${PACKAGE}.
> 
> But I'm not finding a way to set the default for libexecdir.  Please point
> me to the autoconf node if I missed this in the docs. 
> 
> Short of GNU standards, is there anything wrong with that desire?
> 
> BTW -- I'm using automake, so I'd like to use libexec_SCRIPTS for
> installing the scripts.
> 
> 
> We also have some package-specific Perl modules that I don't really want
> to install in the system Perl library (e.g. /usr/lib/perl5).  They are
> copied directly from the distribution -- that is, there's nothing platform
> or OS specific about them.  So I'm not sure if they should go in datadir
> (something like ${datadir}/${PACKAGE}/perl).  
> 
> Since Perl installs in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, I suppose we would
> follow and use ${prefix}/lib/{$PACKAGE}/perl.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> 

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