Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Feb 13 13:01:00 GMT 2007


"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
>> Maciej>  Indeed, though they are not fatal.  Perhaps Makefile.in files
>> Maciej> in the affected directories (Makefile.am are OK as
>> Maciej> sufficiently new automake will deal with that) could get
>> Maciej> updated beforehand?  It should not hurt at all.
>> 
>> I think automake 1.10 requires the new autoconf.  So, Makefile.ins
>> can't be updated first.
>
>  Well, adding a definition of the $(datarootdir) variable like this:
>
> datarootdir = @datadir@
> datadir = $(datarootdir)
>
> should not require any updates for tools and can then be converted to the 
> final form of:
>
> datarootdir = @datarootdir@
> datadir = @datadir@

You don't need the intermediate form.  The final form will work for both.

Andreas.

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