Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS_PREFIX_HACK

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> Surely, the better approach is to adapt autoconf, such that either
> the AC_INIT setting of `ac_default_prefix' is more intelligent wrt
> Win32 (or more specifically, MSYS) paths, or to adapt the AC_OUTPUT
> reassignment of `prefix=$ac_default_prefix' to incorporate some
> variant of the MSYS_PREFIX_HACK logic I presented earlier -- my
> preference would be to have a more intelligent initialisation
> for `ac_default_prefix', e.g. instead of:
>
>  ac_default_prefix=/usr/local
>
> say:
>
>  ac_default_prefix=`exec 2>/dev/null;cd /usr/local;pwd -W` ||\
>    ac_default_prefix=/usr/local
>
> I have tested this alternative initialisation on every system
> available to me.  On SunOS 5.5.1 with `sh', `ksh' and `bash', on

I am sure that this works great if the real Windows path represented 
by prefix contains embedded spacess. ;-)

Many/most packages will bomb as soon as they encounter spaces in 
paths.

Bob
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