[16144] in Athena Bugs
Re: athdir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Sokol-Margolis)
Wed Aug 12 14:56:35 1998
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Aug 1998 11:31:15 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:56:32 EDT
From: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
> First, you really want to set exec-prefix, not just bindir. (This may
> not make a difference for the program you're building, but it's
> generally a good idea.)
I was actually setting more than just bindir and exec-prefix, but just
picked one as an example.
> Second, you *want* to hardcode the systype you're building new
> software for; some aspects of athdir (for instance, its lack of output
> if it can't find a suitable path and its ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT support)
> are inappropriate here.
Since I was actually using this in a script that was calling
configure, wouldn't the same path get hardcoded either way? (provided
athdir actually returns something)
seph
