On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:35:37 +0100 Sebastian Dransfeld
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:14:19 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:
> >> Then I agree. But --prefix should then be taken literally, so that using
> >> --prefix=/mydir makes the module end up in /mydir/MODULENAME.
> > 
> > this would violate the principle of least surprise. --prefix should do what
> > it does every else in autofoo - people should be able to use
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/blah/e
> > make
> > make install
> > 
> > for everything in efl - for that matter, every piece of software that uses
> > autofoo, and it should do the right thing and just work - install in the
> > right place.
> > 
> 
> But this case is solved by using
> E_CONFIG='/opt/blah/e/bin/e-config' ./configure
> 
> What we now try to solve is when a user adds /my/module/dir to the 
> module search path. We could use
> 
> ./configure --with-module-dir=/my/module/dir
> 
> Then we ignore all standard options :)

i'd definitely vote for that way - not overloading --prefix to behave
differently to how it normally does :)

> Sebastian
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