Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mit, 2001-12-05 um 12.20 schrieb Jens Petersen:
> Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Am Mit, 2001-12-05 um 10.53 schrieb Akim Demaille:
> > > >>>>> "juhp" == Jens Petersen <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > >> * bin/autoconf.in (AUTOM4TE): Prefix with bindir, so that autoconf
> > > >> runs even when it is installed outside the current PATH.
> > > 
> > > juhp> Did anyone have time to consider this patch?  Is it considered
> > > juhp> useful or not?
> > > 
> > > I'm not in favor of it.  I believe that the principle of least
> > > surprise means obeying to the PATH.  In the past, autoconf has had
> > > problems because of hard coded paths.
> 
> Ok, but isn't there also the risk of getting a different
> version of autom4te ahead in the path relative to the
> desired version?
Yes, this risk is present and actually is very easy to run into if
having different versions of autoconf installed to different PREFIXes.

I recently encountered exactly this problem and reported it, cf.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-autoconf/2001/msg00633.html

BTW: autoreconf is subject to similar issues.

Ralf