Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - September 23rd 2010

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:23:19PM -0700, Josh Blum wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/25/2010 12:01 PM, Eric Blossom wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:24:18AM -0700, Josh Blum wrote:
> >>This turns out to be a bug in gnuradio configure  - when --prefix is
> >>not specified with ./configure, the ${prefix} variable is set to
> >>NONE
> >
> >Listen guys, you may not like this behavior, but it's not a bug.
> >If you read the makefile standards, it's to allow a package to be
> >installed into a different location at "make install" time.
> >
> 
> Thats fine, but is it fine that configure.ac sets PKG_CONFIG_PATH to
> NONE/lib/pkgconfig when --prefix is not specified. Thats not a
> problem?

I agree with you it's not exactly right.

I'm not sure about the right action.

This issue should probably go onto the list of things to be considered
in the grand build restructuring that was discussed by some of us a
couple of weeks ago.

Eric