Configuration bug in gdbm

[Eric M. Monsler]

Hi,

I'm trying to install th gdbm package as a non-priviledged user on
Solaris.

If I do:
./configure --prefix=/home/emonsler/usr/local
--libdir=/home/emonsler/usr/local/lib

I then see:

address@hidden:gdbm-1.8.0$ grep prefix Makefile
# Common prefix for installation directories
prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = $(prefix)
binprefix = $(exec_prefix)
manprefix = $(prefix)
libdir = $(exec_prefix)/lib
includedir = $(prefix)/include
infodir = $(prefix)/info
man3dir = $(prefix)/man/man3

The fact that prefix does not inherit properly from the configure
command seems like it is a configuration bug in the package.

Overall, the ability to configure Gnu utils, and install system
libraries for development into a non-standard location is really
impressive!

Thanks for all the good work.

Eric M. Monsler