Re: Default for libexecdir

[Earnie Boyd]

John Burger wrote:
> > > I believe you want to do this:
> > >
> > >    libexecdir='${prefix}/lib'
> > >
> > > which will carry over unexpanded to your Makefiles, where prefix is
> > > given a proper value.
> >
> >
> > That would break the configure --libexecdir option, though.
>
>
> I finally get it.  I think you're right, you cannot change the default 
> values of the "standard" variables.  In some ways, Autoconf assumes that 
> one is building a standard Gnu package, with all that entails about 
> directory stricture and names.  There is some flexibility in this area, 
> but not as much as one might like.
>
> I think the only thing you could do is "edit" the value after AC_INIT 
> happens, taking some care to check that the user didn't explicitly set 
> it on the command line - I'm not sure how to do this without using 
> internal details of the generated configure script ...

Create a new switch, something like --with-libexecdir=/path/to/pkg/lib, 
or perhaps you like --with-pkglibdir=/path/to/pkg/lib better.  The 
default value for your new switch is the value for --libexecdir.

Earnie.