Can't save in r12331

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> writes:

>> Nope, it's not that simple.  $(GNC_SHAREDIR) is still defined in terms
>> of $prefix, which is still NONE if no --prefix is installed.  No, we
>> need to check if "x$prefix" = xNONE and if so use $ac_default_prefix
>> instead in those sed expressions.
>
> The whole thing makes about zero sense to me.  Why are we even doing
> this in configure.in at all?

That's a good question.  I don't know the answer offhand.  Maybe
Neil could let us know why we're doing it this way?

> Don't we already have access to all the expanded path variables in our
> Makefiles?  Why can't we avoid all this in configure.in and just do
> the substitution or header creation in the Makefile?  Just like we do
> with src/engine/gncla-dir.h.  That makes a whole lot more sense to me,
> and we know it even works for VPATH builds.

Either that, or just have configure generate it from a .in file like
it does Makefile from Makefile.in?  I haven't looked at how it's used.

> -chris

-derek

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