[Rock-dev] Autotools package handler

[Sylvain Joyeux]

If the configure script does not support --prefix, it is not an
autoconf script. Autotools packages are not "any package that has a
configure script". You might have an automake package without
autoconf, or even just a package-with-a-configure-script.

Sylvain

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Dennis Hemker <Dennis.Hemker at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am currently experiencing some odd behaviour of the autotools package
> handler. I am trying to integrate an autotools package with a given
> configure script - no *.in oder *.ac file is provided:
>
> Although all options like pkg[:aclocal], pkg[:autoconf] etc. are explicitly
> turned off, autoproj still wants a *.in or *.ac file - which is definitely
> not used, if I create an empty one
> When autoproj executes the configure script, something like --prefix=/foo/
> is always passed as a script argument. How to turn off that prefix? It's
> necessary because the script wants a custom argument like -prefix=/foo/,
> which can be configured by seperately calling pkg.configureflags.
>
> Best,
>
> Dennis
>
>
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