On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:08 PM Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?
This patch is very simple... it have explicit --disable-... to disable the behavior, default leaving the current behavior. All explicit, no magic. _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
