>>>>> "kettenis" == kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kettenis> Would it be possible to allow an empty prefix again in the
kettenis> next autoconf release?
Sure!
Index: ChangeLog
from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_PARSE_ARGS): `prefix' and `exec_prefix'
can be empty.
`*dir' variables cannot be NONE.
Reported by Mark Kettenis.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.148
diff -u -u -r1.148 NEWS
--- NEWS 2001/06/02 15:45:32 1.148
+++ NEWS 2001/06/05 12:42:01
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
** Bug fixes
- Mostly in the test suite.
- Invocation of GNU M4 now robust to POSIXLY_CORRECT.
+- configure accepts --prefix='' again.
* Major changes in Autoconf 2.50
Index: THANKS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/THANKS,v
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -u -r1.61 THANKS
--- THANKS 2001/05/31 07:02:13 1.61
+++ THANKS 2001/06/05 12:42:02
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
Marcus Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marcus Thiessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Elbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+Mark Kettenis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Markku Savela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Markus Oberhumer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Buchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: acgeneral.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/acgeneral.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.727
diff -u -u -r1.727 acgeneral.m4
--- acgeneral.m4 2001/06/04 16:07:23 1.727
+++ acgeneral.m4 2001/06/05 12:42:02
@@ -1005,14 +1005,22 @@
fi
# Be sure to have absolute paths.
+for ac_var in exec_prefix prefix
+do
+ eval ac_val=$`echo $ac_var`
+ case $ac_val in
+ [[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* | NONE | '' ) ;;
+ *) AC_MSG_ERROR([expected an absolute path for --$ac_var: $ac_val]);;
+ esac
+done
+
+# Be sure to have absolute paths.
for ac_var in bindir sbindir libexecdir datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir \
- localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir \
- exec_prefix prefix
+ localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir
do
eval ac_val=$`echo $ac_var`
case $ac_val in
[[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* ) ;;
- NONE ) ;;
*) AC_MSG_ERROR([expected an absolute path for --$ac_var: $ac_val]);;
esac
done
