Re: Config Bug

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh... right after I hit send, I figured out what the problem was!

Here's a patch (against configure.in) that solves the problem for me.
Can a few of you try it?  If it works, please commit it?

Thanks!


--- configure.in.orig   Fri May 25 14:39:35 2001
+++ configure.in        Fri May 25 14:39:48 2001
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
 dnl *
 eval SYSCONFDIR="$sysconfdir"
 eval SYSCONFDIR="$SYSCONFDIR"
-SYSCONFDIR="`echo "$sysconfdir" |sed 's/^NONE/\/usr\/local/'`"
+SYSCONFDIR="`echo "$SYSCONFDIR" |sed 's/^NONE/\/usr\/local/'`"
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SYSCONFDIR,"$SYSCONFDIR")
 
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile doc/Makefile linux/Makefile freebsd/Makefile 
tn5250-config xt5250)



On Fri, 25 May 2001, Scott Klement wrote:

> 
> Here's a bug that I've been trying to find a good way to fix, and I 
> just can't seem to find one...
> 
> When you do a ./configure to build tn5250, it creates a file called
> src/tn5250-config.h  In this file is a line that looks like this:
> 
>       /* Define this to the system config directory. */
>       #define SYSCONFDIR "${prefix}/etc"
> 
> 
> What I'm looking for is a way to replace the "${prefix}" with a directory,
> such as /usr/local.   Right now, what it does is actually look for a 
> directory called "${prefix}", and that just doesn't work :)
> 
> Shouldn't autoconf be replacing ${prefix} with the actual directory name?
> it appears to me that it SHOULD -- but I've tested it, and it never does.
> 
> I've tested this on RedHat 6.1, and 6.2 as well as FreeBSD.  I think I'm
> using autoconf 2.13 on all of these systems...
> 
> Thanks for any help/tips...
> 
> 
> 
> 

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