Re: Bug#372179: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

[Justin Erenkrantz]

On 6/18/06, Tollef Fog Heen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Currently, if configure is passed --sbindir=, it just overrides
> $sbindir without flagging that at all.  If it, in addition to changing
> $sbindir, it'd set ac_param_sbindir either to 1 to show that sbindir
> is derviced from a command line argument or to the value passed on the
> command line.  If we had this, APR_LAYOUT could check if
> ac_param_sbindir was set, and if so skip setting sbindir from the
> layout.
>
> Would this be an acceptable solution for both the APR and the autoconf
> people?

That could work for our purposes, yes.  It'd be cleaner to boot, too.  -- justin