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On 09/08/2009 15:26, Dave Korn wrote:
>    I don't think you needed to qualify that by saying "for gcc they may not be";
> it applies to anything that uses autotools.  As long as configure offers the
> user --bindir, --libdir, and all these other options for freely renaming and
> re-laying-out the $prefix structure during a configure and build, I think that
> we need to support them, with a more general approach that will DTRT no matter
> how the user configures their build.

The assumption that $bindir is $libdir/../bin has been there for some 
time; anyone using a nonconformant --bindir= is on their own anyway 
regardless of this patch.


Yaakov

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