Hi,
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hm... I'm not sure I got correctly what the problem with --prefix=/ is,
> so I left out that part for now, but I'm willing to help if there is
> anything to do.
I'm afraid it's late, you have already solved ;-)
> Regarding defaults, please don't make --prefix=/ the default; use
> --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/. The reason is very simple: /man is not in
> groff's search path, /lib/pkgconfig is not in pkg-config's search path,
> /include is not in gcc's search path. => Only executable files can be in
> /, data files are not allowed there and must remain elsewhere: /usr or
> /usr/local in most cases.
Yes, now I remember this is why --prefix=/ isn't ok. Would you please
submit a patch for this too as you described above?
> Anyway, attached is a patch that adds a --disable-ldconfig option. I also
> reorganized a few things in src/Makefile.am for simplicity reasons: The
> symlinks can be created at any time, they don't need to be created as the
> last thing, so they can be done in *-local instead of *-hook. This allows
> me to put the entire *-hook target into a conditional, which is easier
> and more compatible with old automake versions than having just parts of
> a target inside a conditional.
Thank you. I should have time to check, test and commit it in the evening.
Szaka
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