Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]> writes:
> You should not do this in autoconf, autoconf is already detecting
> everything that is required,
From which autoconf version? I'd be happy to require a recent autoconf
and drop this code if it's no longer needed. When this hack was added,
it was the case that one or the other of
./configure CC='gcc -m32' && make && make install
or
./configure CC='gcc -m64' && make && make install
would install library files in the wrong directory, overwriting and
damaging any correctly installed library previously installed in that
place. On some systems, even
./configure && make && make install
would cause damage. Systems affected included any x86_64 gnu/linux
system that (i) adhered to the linux hierarchy standard with 32-bit x86
libraries in /usr/local/lib (including gentoo, but not debian), and had
a gcc installation defaulting to generating code for x86_64 (which I'd
guess gentoo did too).
So the libdir detection is intended to help the user to not shot
him/herself in the foot.
I don't know what current gentoo does. Debian's way of doing multiarch
makes a lot of sense to me. You can then configure any autoconfed
library, including nettle, with something like
--prefix=/usr --libdir='${prefix}/lib/${host}'
and nettle's special libdir default is not used.
Does recent autoconf do anything like that by default?
> Having said that, and to avoid backward compatibility, I would like to
> add a switch to disable this behavior completely and relay on the
> default logic of autoconf as expected.
Would it make sense to have this automatic detection apply only when
also the prefix is the default /usr/local? (Unfortunately, I don't know
how a configure script can find out authoritatively if --prefix or
--libdir were present on the command line, which is why I compare libdir
to the default value instead.
And I really don't understand why you'd prefer a nettle specific
--disable-... argument over the GNU standard --libdir=/usr/lib/whatever.
Regards,
/Niels
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