[Fedora-directory-devel] Why is there a Makefile in CVS?

[Richard Megginson]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> <snip>
> It was this bit in Makefile.am that seems odd to me:
>
> # these are for the config files and scripts that we need to generate
> and replace
> # the paths and other tokens with the real values set during
> configure/make
> # note that we cannot just use AC_OUTPUT to do this for us, since it
> will do things like this:
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ${prefix}/lib/fedora-ds
> # i.e. it literally copies in '${prefix}' rather than expanding it out -
> we want this instead:
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib/fedora-ds
> if BUNDLE
> fixupcmd = sed \
>         -e 's, at bindir\@,$(bindir),g' \
>         -e 's, at sbindir\@,$(sbindir),g' \
>
>   
It seems odd because it is odd - but there is no other way to replace 
things like @localstatedir@, @sysconfdir@, @sbindir@, etc. in .in files 
that we use during the build.  I don't know how other projects do this - 
perhaps they ignore the "mandated GNU coding standards" and just have 
${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} expanded during configure, and just let 
AC_CONFIG_FILES and AC_OUTPUT create all of the real files from their 
corresponding .in file.
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