Re: Conversion to /package

Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Another possibility I was thinking about was patching the programs that
> make these software packages use the paths they use: the GNU auto*-suite.
> 
> I began to patch autoconf and automake and all looked very promisingly:
> I was able to install strace like this:
> ... 
> ./configure &&
> make &&  ...
> make install 
> ... 
> Very easy. Just ./configure; make; make install. As they always told us
> at GNU.

That sounds great.  If you make the change a runtime option, e.g.

./configure --/package

then there's a good chance that the autoconf/automake maintainers
would accept your patches.

> But the problem with this installation method is that there are too many
> GNU packages out there that use and require too many different versions
> of the GNU auto*-tools to let this method be practicable.

Yeah, there would be a long lead time, but if you get this patch
into the main automake/autoconf distribution, then in a couple
years, all the packages out there would eventually end up with
support for /package built in.

Peaceful coexistence.  What a concept!
- Dan