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Re: Default for libexecdir
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Bill Moseley |
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Re: Default for libexecdir |
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:21:23 -0800 (PST) |
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, John Burger wrote:
Hi John,
> I believe you want to do this:
>
> libexecdir='${prefix}/lib'
>
> which will carry over unexpanded to your Makefiles, where prefix is
> given a proper value.
That would break the configure --libexecdir option, though.
I think that people should still be able to do:
./configure --libexecdir=/some/odd/place
and have my helper scripts installed in /some/odd/place.
To avoid breaking things I may just have to live with the value of
libexecdir (e.g. $prefix/libexec) and pollute that directory instead of
installing into a subdirectory named after my package. Then at least
package maintainers like Debian can use --libexecdir to set a more
sensible place.
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