Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 25/46] Use configure --mandir=DIR to set MANDIR

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 14:23 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we are just using it wrong and we should be doing in Paths.mk.in:
> >         prefix=@prefix@
> >         datarootdir=@datarootdir@
> >         mandir=@mandir@
> >         ...
> >         MANDIR=\$mandir
> > 
> > (or even just switching our code to $mandir). Perhaps looking at what
> > automake would put in Makefile.in for a generic project would be
> > informative?
> > 
> > That would be a bigger change though and I'd be OK with deferring for
> > now.
> 
> With automake the resulting variables are all lowercase. Perhaps thats
> the reason why configure uses also lowercase. Just xen uses uppercase
> for all variables.
> 
> So my options are either: expand to lowercase variables and assign to
> existing uppercase variables later in that file. Or do a treewide
> conversion from upper to lowercase.
> 
> Looks like the simplest change would be to expand all variables from
> configure in Paths.mk and assign them later to existing variables.

Ack.



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