Re: ./configure --libdir ignored

[Santiago Capel Torres]

Ralf Wildenhues escribió:
> * Santiago Capel Torres wrote on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:24:37PM CET:
> > It seems that all dir variables work fine in my Makefile, but libdir
> > seems to be hard coded, so when I issue
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/local
> >
> > or
> >
> > ./configure --libdir=$HOME/tmp/local/lib
> >
> > the libdir is always set to /usr/lib
>
> Weird.
>
> > I'm using autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10.
>
> IIRC we had such a bug in some unreleased CVS version of Libtool.
> Which exact Libtool are you using?  If not that, then I think it
> must be in some third-party macro you use.  This could hint:
>   grep -C5 libdir= configure

I've found the origin of the problem. It was inside a local autoconf
macro (defined in aclocal.m4) which used a temporary variable named
precisely libdir. I though that that variable would be local, but it is
global indeed.

Changed the name and now it works fine.

Weird, is there any way of declaring local macro variables?

--santilin

> Cheers,
> Ralf