Re: configmake module and automake 1.9.6

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:32PM CET:
> 
> Why does autoconf not support --lispdir automatically?  That is the one
> case in make-stds.texi that has to call out that the user has to do an
> AC_SUBST; should we patch autoconf to automatically support lispdir
> alongside all the other standardized directory locations?

Well, that should first have a GCS change.  Since every such GCS change
creates a small incompatibility (package trees using mixed autotools
versions may not cope with a --lispdir passed from toplevel), such
changes should not be done lightly, and maybe batched.


If you choose to go that way: Another thing to think about in this case
is whether we want something like --sharedlibdir.  It could default to
bindir on w32 systems and libdir everywhere else, and would be the
intended location for the DLL/.so files (and could make for a nicer
libtool solution that -bindir).  The suggestion came from Niels Möller
(Cc:ed) on a non-public list.

Thanks,
Ralf