On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:20:34PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:09:10PM +0000, Thom May wrote: > > Right then. So after a fair amount of discussion on IRC, this is hopefully > > the solution to all the configuration issues people have been hitting. > > The only issue now is that this code is distributed as part of the "data" > > part of autoconf. The license for autoconf _appears_ to say that the "data" > > section of autoconf (which is defined as stuff that gets put into configure > > scripts) is under no restrictions and is freely available to use, modify > > and distribute - in other words, exempt from the GPL. The license is pasted below. > > Huge thanks to Aaron and Justin for this. (Esp. to Justin for not taking out > > a contract on my life). > > +1 - works here - we *need* this soon as our tree is broken now.
I just want to clarify that the only place where our tree is actually broken is in the bad assumptions we make in our build/install system (which all assume an Apache-style layout and usually fail on any other layout). This patch will give us back the Apace-style layout by default, but we still have to fix the bad assumptions. > However, I can't commit without the PMC signing off on this first due > to the licensing questions. -- justin The code gets a +1 from me too, but I'm concerned about licensing issues as well. -aaron p.s. This patch lets us keep the best of both worlds: --enable-layout works with default of Apache-style layout, other layouts can be enabled too (not sure if our build/install system works yet, but the paths seem to be set correctly), --prefix-like params can override they layout (all of them, not just --prefix and --exec-prefix), and now we can start to actually go through and fix the bugs where non-Apache layouts wouldn't work before. :)
