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Re: gawk 3.1.0 DEFPATH problem


From: Aharon Robbins
Subject: Re: gawk 3.1.0 DEFPATH problem
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:23:09 +0300

> To: address@hidden (Aharon Robbins)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: gawk 3.1.0 DEFPATH problem
> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:27:16 +0200
>
> address@hidden (Aharon Robbins) writes:
>
>> .....
>
> Unless I miss something, this means that the awk library resides in a
> directory ending in "gawk" (pkgdatadir) whereas the subsidary programs
> reside in a directory ending in "awk" (libexecdir).  It would perhaps be
> preferable to make this consistent.  Also, at least in gawk 3.1.0, the
> makefile in the awklib directory still has an explicit reference to
> $(datadir)/awk that should probably be changed to $(pkgdatadir).
>
> Andreas.

You're right.  I'll do a better patch.  Automake and Autoconf are
certainly "complex and wonderful" to quote Dan Forsyth.  Sigh.  Too
bad for those lesser programmers among us.

Thanks,

Arnold



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