ср, 26 июн. 2019 г. в 17:00, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com>:
>
> 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.

What about just checking if libdir was overwritten via argument and not
touching it if it was the case? Will that work for you?


-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry
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