Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:50:35 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andris Pavenis cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [binkley AT sst DOT ncsl DOT nist DOT gov: djgpp and ld] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > My thoughts were directed to get some workaround for need to specify > $DJDIR in prefix as it is not so easy to push '$' through configure files Not easy, but nevertheless possible ;-). IMHO, any DJGPP source distribution should try very hard to do this, so that people who only need to recompile without changing too much could avoid the complex and non-trivial configure step. Your suggestion to use an invalid name has one very large disadvantage: it doesn't permit to produce a package that has sensible defaults built into it. Using "c:/djgpp" at least allows users to use C:\DJGPP as the place where programs should work without any environment variables. ${DJDIR} is better, but as you know, most GNU packages don't expand default paths at run time (although some ports, like ID-utils and Make, were specifically changed to do just that).