gEDA: Re: [gtkwave] Re: GTKWave Snapshot 20021021.

[Andrew Bardsley <bardslea@cs.man.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jamin Tse wrote:

> Hello Dave,

<Jamin's stuff omitted>
 
> Hello Andrew, the following message, which is got from "./configure --help",
> 
> Installation directories:
>   --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
> [/usr/local]
>   --exec-prefix=EPREFIX   install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
> [PREFIX]
> 
> does not work on 20021021 release. But it was working on past release. It
> means that the EPREFIX is not same as PREFIX if we have not specified the
> arguement --exec-prefix=EPREFIX. Do I observe right?

My handling of prefix separate from exec_prefix may still be wrong.  In my
opinion automake/autoconf give too many options this way and make it very
hard to build paths into your programs (even fallback type paths).

If I understand you, your problem is with exec_prefix and prefix not being
kept separate?  Is this right?
I've just tried:

1) configure with both options (--prefix=something --exec-prefix=something_different)
	and that works OK (installs bin+lib and pixmaps in different places)
2) configure with just --prefix, and that works
and
3) configure with just --exec-prefix, and that works too (bin+lib in 
	/tmp/a (my test dir) and pixmaps in /usr/local/...)

Also, we should probably take this argument to just the gtkwave list.
I'm not sure yet what Dave's problem is but I have Solaris 8 here to
try out a cold compile.

- Andrew
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