Ready for 2.3.10?

[Guus Leeuw jr.]

Chaps,

as of autoconf 2.60, said tool has been adopted to newer GNU Coding
Standards, which has the affect that "datadir", "mandir", and "infodir" are
expressed in terms of "datarootdir".

Now, automake will include datarootdir = @datarootdir@, but your automake
and autoconf need to be "in sync". At any rate, if the Makefile.in was
hand-crafted, one needs to add that substitution line.

After code audits etc to make sure you're at the latest levels (including
datarootdir etc), you can disable these warnings with
AC_DEFUN([AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED]) in the configure.in or configure.ac
script. *This should be used as a last resort* as the GNU autotools will at
one point stop warning about datarootdir, and simply make it an error.

Cheers,
Guus

-----Original Message-----
From: cyrus-devel-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:cyrus-devel-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of David Carter
Sent: 11 October 2007 20:32
To: Ken Murchison
Cc: cyrus-devel at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Ready for 2.3.10?

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Ken Murchison wrote:

>> config.status: creating man/Makefile
>> config.status: WARNING:  man/Makefile.in seems to ignore the
--datarootdir 
>> setting
>> config.status: creating master/Makefile
>> ...
>> config.status: creating Makefile
>> config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir 
>> setting
>> config.status: creating config.h
>
>
> I'm not sure, I've never seen them before.

I see this (SLES10 or OpenSuSE, i386). However 2.3.8 moans exactly the 
same way. I don't speak autoconf well enough to know what the problem is.

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