Re: AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT and AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:

>> This is what I'm applying.  Correct me if I was wrong.

Ralf> No, you are right. Feel free to apply it. 

I did.

Ralf> I have just not had enough time to write NEWS, ChangeLog entries
Ralf> and to adapt the docs.

Ralf> However, there still remains an issue lurking which concerns me
Ralf> a little and which probably needs to looked after: The impact of
Ralf> this patch on AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM

Well, clearly the patch says `the top level defines it for them all',
what ever would have the default for sub configure.in.  That's what
you meant don't you?  Now --prefix is given to all the slaves, so how
ever the default was computed, it's overridden by the option.