Paul Eggert: >Sure. So create a symlink to that, e.g., > ln -s '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Steel Bank Common Lisp/1.2.6/sbc' /tmp/xyz > Then configure with the equivalent of SBCL=/tmp/xyz. > Obviously the idea needs some elaboration (e.g., if the file name is needed > at runtime) but it would work. All it needs is Somebody to write and test and document the patch.
That will not work well in many cases. /tmp often doesn't stick around, nor is there any standard safe system-wide place anything could write to. How do you handle containers where the software is preinstalled and provided on readonly mounts and with new blank /tmp? This approach is also nasty to package. The whole approach is a weird kludge. I do grant you points for being clever, but isn't there a better way? --- David A.Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
