26 Jun
2019
26 Jun
'19
1:53 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:45 AM Niels Möller nisse@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.
Jeff