Re: -libdir on Darwin

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Adriaan,

* Adriaan van Os wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:43:36AM CEST:
> In Autoconf, in lib/autoconf/general.m4, there is a code fragment that 
> checks to "Be sure to have absolute directory names".

Yes.  And that check is checking for a string that can easily be
detected as absolute directory name; not because the semantics of
a library installation directory may happen to be that way, but because
otherwise things like prepending DESTDIR won't work.

> Therefore, the check for an absolute pathname for libdir in the above code 
> fragment is wrong.

No, this bug is a non-issue for Autoconf: it's not the right place to
change this.

For Libtool, matters are slightly different: Libtool has a limitation to
not allow relocatable packages (which is what you're after, after all).
This may be fixed eventually, but even in that case I don't think
  --libdir @...

will be allowed for configure; instead, some other mechanism should be
employed.  (Don't hold your breath, fixing this in Libtool is a lot of
work.)

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf