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Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default


From: Ralf Corsepius
Subject: Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default
Date: 13 Feb 2002 16:00:26 +0100

Am Mit, 2002-02-13 um 13.32 schrieb Akim Demaille:
> >>>>> "juhp" == Jens Petersen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> juhp> While cvs updating I noticed the open issue of the default value
> juhp> of AUTOM4TE.  Since Alexandre's suggestion
> 
> >> if test -z "$AUTOM4TE"; then AUTOM4TE = `echo "$0" | sed
> >> s/@address@hidden/@autom4te-name@/` fi
> >> 
> >> or
> >> 
> >> dir=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's,[^\\/]*$,,'` :
> >> address@hidden@}
> 
> juhp> isn't in cvs yet, I ask again:
> 
> juhp> Jens Petersen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> is autom4te [ever] used standalone [] at all?  If it isn't then I
> >> agree with Ralf about moving it out of bindir to say datadir.
> 
> juhp> How about moving autom4te from bindir to say datadir?
> 
> I'm against that! 
I am for it (Not necessarily datadir, but outside of bindir).

> autom4te is public.
Why? Please elaborate. With my limited mental horizon I fail to see how
it can be applied directly, i.e. not underneath of autoconf etc.

>  For the time being, it is just
> not documented, but it is not meant to be in datadir at all.
Hmm, for now autom4te is nothing but an internal implementation detail.

Ralf






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