Re: ./configure --libdir ignored

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Santiago Capel Torres wrote on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:24:37PM CET:
> 
> It seems that all dir variables work fine in my Makefile, but libdir
> seems to be hard coded, so when I issue
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/tmp/local
> 
> or
> 
> ./configure --libdir=$HOME/tmp/local/lib
> 
> the libdir is always set to /usr/lib

Weird.

> I'm using autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10.

IIRC we had such a bug in some unreleased CVS version of Libtool.
Which exact Libtool are you using?  If not that, then I think it
must be in some third-party macro you use.  This could hint:
  grep -C5 libdir= configure

Cheers,
Ralf