Re: New autoconf macro

David Kastrup <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jan-Ake Larsson <[email protected]> writes:

> I presume you mean
>
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> If I am correct in that assumption, we should be able to get rid of
>> not only AC_FULL_EXPAND.
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> all _expand variables but also

No, we actually currently have stuff like options set to the _string_
'${prefix}/whatever', with ${prefix} later getting expanded in the
Makefile (either by make or the shell, forgot which).  And not even
this weirdness will be needed anymore if I am correct.  The current
idea of lispdir-relative settings coupled with DESTDIR should be all
we need.  No late expansion of shell variables anymore.  It can all be
done at configure time.  This means, of course, that

  make prefix=somethingelse

will _not_ work anymore, since most variables will not be
prefix-relative.  But I don't think this is a problem, is it?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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