Hi Klaus,

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:10:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i didn't supply any arguments to make distcheck.
> 
> But i have to mention that i didn't apply the patches for auto_gen.sh
> in libgc and libffi and the corresponding configure.in changes.
> 
> Maybe we'll have to pass the right prefix to configure in libgc
> because it tried to install the files in /gc/...

Please start with the series "as it is", to make sure that it works the
way the series is done. If it does, we can have a look at the library
questions.

If you see installation problems with one of the "inferior" libraries,
it is most probably the right solution to apply my patches to them as
well (maybe documented somewhere in the tree), even if this means that
we should asap push the changes to the upstream versions of these
packets. My experience is that if you start providing arbitrary
variables to inferior configure scripts you are doing something wrong.

The autotools perfectly handle the case that a packet contains sub
packets with their own configure scripts, and they know how do to it
_right_, which is most times not the case if you fiddle around with the
things manually. This was one of the problems with the old code which
called the configure scripts; it didn't even handle DESTDIR correctly.

Robert
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