Re: ./configure - niceness

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

hi there,

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:12:46PM +1000, Adrian Head wrote:
> However, any idea when this patch will be intergrated into CVS?  If it is 
> all-ready in there then I apologise; however, I cannot remember seeing a TAKE 
> message for it.

No its not in there yet.  This patch needs some changes before
it goes in, I've been having some discussions with Nigel about
it, he's going to get back to me when he's reworked some bits.

> This is quite a handy little patch for those of us that like to have the user 
> tool binaries in different places.

The patch simply changes ROOT_PREFIX and PREFIX from environment
variables to configure options, it doesn't add new functionality
(ie. you can achieve the above with the existing build system).

Unfortunately it has some side-effects on some parts of the build
process which were not foreseen; it shouldn't be too difficult to
fix though, and Nigel is working on it.

cheers.

--
Nathan