Re: [Mingw-users] Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLibetc..."

[Guido Draheim]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > I agree that this is inelegant. Ideally, we would calculate the relative path to
> > bindir from libdir, but I don't know how to do that. Anyone?
>
>
> There is no requirement that bindir from libdir even be on the same
> filesystem, or the same system, or symbolic links may be involved.
> Relative paths are not aways possible.

yes. please, no such calculations or something at a time being
just too late. I'm doing the trick of adjusting the $libdir to
be like $bindir when $libdir has *not* been overriden on the
configure command line:

libdir=`echo $libdir |sed -e 's:^..exec_prefix./lib$:${bindir}:'`

it's a bit hackish but works great. Basically, I'm twisting the
gnu fhs defaults as hardcoded in the autoconf $bindir/$libdir to
be more win32 style. After some dead ends, I did combine a
number of these change-the-default-paths into an ac-macro:

http://ac-archive.SF.net/guidod/ac_set_default_paths_system.html

just use that one early in the configure.ac script (and after
ac_canocial_system), and the rest is just dont-worry-anymore.