Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 14:08:25 -0400: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 01:24:56 -0400: > >> +if [ -L "$ltpath" -a "$ltpath" = "/bin" ]; then > >> + # Avoid "/bin" symlink to "/usr/bin" confusion > >> + ltpath=/usr/bin > >> +fi > > > > We can't presume that /usr/bin is the target of /bin when the latter is > > a symlink. That's not necessarily true everywhere. > > Can you think of a specific instance where "libtool" is in > "/bin/libtool" where this would not apply? In all circumstance I know > of where "/bin" is a symlink with "libtoolize" in it, it's the case, >
Actually I can, but that's besides the point. We need autogen.sh to work no matter what the /bin symlink points to. > > I see there's a "aclocal --print-ac-dir" flag which seems to just print > > the path we need. Does that help? Can we eg first look for aclocal in > > PATH and then run that command to find the share/aclocal dir? > > This would make sense if the tool was written to look for "aclocal". > It's not, it's set to look for "libtoolize", for reasons I'm uncertain > of. That actually makes more sense. Let me think about that. Okay. By the way, this thread should move to the dev@ list; feel free to restart/summarize the discussion there. Cheers, Daniel
