Duncan Coutts wrote:
I am trying to understand the reason we have so many --dir flags to configure. I'd prefer to remove what appear to be duplicates and add some more dir overrides for specific file types (like docs).
We currently have:
--libdir= and --libsubdir= --datadir= and --datasubdir=
in each case the subdir flavour is an extra directory underneath the main dir which defaults to the package id. Seems to me that we can get rid of the subdir stuff because you can say:
--libdir='/foo/bar/$pkgid/$compiler'
Indeed this already works. So can we deprecate the subdir variants and tell people to just use these vars?
The only thing the subdir thing was for is to be able to adjust the libdir while still getting the pkgid and compiler components generically and we can do that more flexibly with vars.
Hmm, I remember going through several iterations of the design here before ending up with --libsubdir. I can't remember all the rationale now (darn, wish I'd written it down somehwere). Did you check the mailing list archives? Cheers, Simon