Re: `--prefix /foo' mishandled in sub-configure invocation

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mon, 2001-11-05 um 13.17 schrieb Tim Van Holder:
> On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 13:02, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Am Son, 2001-11-04 um 21.47 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
> > 
> > > I've found the following bug when configuring AutoGen
> > > with a configure generated by Autoconf 2.52e (2001-10-26).
> > > 
> > > ~/projs/cvs/autogen/autogen % ./configure --prefix ~/usr
> > 
> > Hmm, is "--prefix foo" documented?
> > 
> > I thought, "--prefix=foo" was required.
> 
> Maybe - but this should then generate an error when originally running
> configure. 
I think so, but anyway I am inclined to think, abandoning "--prefix foo"
in favor of "--prefix=foo" would be appropriate and much clearer
(probably another case of "bugward-ability" :)

> In any case, config.status should not have the incorrect
> form used now.
ACK. 
 
> > > configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/home/adl/usr  
> > > /home/adl/usr --enable-snprintfv-convenience --cache-file=/dev/null 
> > > --srcdir=.
>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > > Note the prefix argument (/home/adl/usr) appears twice in the
> > > sub-configure invocation.
> > 
> > Where? I don't see this in the log above.
> 
> Cfr the ^^^ marks above
;)

Ralf