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Re: Autoconf should not require to be in the path
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Autoconf should not require to be in the path |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:38:33 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <address@hidden> writes:
Peter> With sources from just now (2.52i), the autoconf executable
Peter> requires autom4te to be in the path. This is inappropriate.
Why?
Peter> The attached patch prepends the configured bindir to the
Peter> program names before they are substituted into the executables
Peter> so that they look into the standard installation location by
Peter> default.
It is on purpose that we really on PATH. Similarly, autoreconf relies
on the path for gettextize, automake, aclocal, libtoolize and so on.
If you don't want to rely on the path, use the envvars.
Hard coding positions of executables seems like a bad idea to me :(
Paul?