If the configure script does not support --prefix, it is not an autoconf script. Autotools packages are not "any package that has a configure script". You might have an automake package without autoconf, or even just a package-with-a-configure-script.
Sylvain On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Dennis Hemker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > I am currently experiencing some odd behaviour of the autotools package > handler. I am trying to integrate an autotools package with a given > configure script - no *.in oder *.ac file is provided: > > Although all options like pkg[:aclocal], pkg[:autoconf] etc. are explicitly > turned off, autoproj still wants a *.in or *.ac file - which is definitely > not used, if I create an empty one > When autoproj executes the configure script, something like --prefix=/foo/ > is always passed as a script argument. How to turn off that prefix? It's > necessary because the script wants a custom argument like -prefix=/foo/, > which can be configured by seperately calling pkg.configureflags. > > Best, > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Rock-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/rock-dev > _______________________________________________ Rock-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/rock-dev
