On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 4:53 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:45 AM Niels Möller <ni...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > > > > ... > > 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 > > Please NO. Don't require an updated Autotools version. > > It is impossible to update Autotools on existing systems. I've never > been able to do it on Linux, OS X and Solaris. The GCC Compile Farm > maintainers were not able to do it on compile farm machines like AIX. > > Stay with the basics. Things already work well. Allow a user to > override libdir using standard options. Don't do fancy things that > break builds. > > Also see > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html. >
Since ever, packages should not have modified any of the system autoconf variables. I believe that nettle is one of the few that attempt to override the autoconf detection. I do not want to enter philosophical argument, just to kindly ask to have the option to disable this proprietary logic. _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
