[MPlayer-users] Small improvement for configure (0.90pre2)

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:02, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> A small annoyance with the configure script is that it hardcodes the
> full path of DATADIR, CONFDIR and LIBDIR into the config.mak file (i.e.
> it expands $prefix).
>
> The result is that things like "./configure; make install
> prefix=/usr/local/stow/mplayer" won't work: Most of the stuff will be
> installed in /usr/local/stow/mplayer, but the makefiles that use DATADIR
> or LIBDIR to *install* things (e.g. vidix/drivers/Makefile) will
> nevertheless try to install in /usr/local. That makes it impossible to
> use tools like "stow".
>
> AFAICS, a fix would be to change the configure script so that it sets
> DATADIR, CONFDIR and LIBDIR in config.make to the unexpanded values, and
> in config.h to the expanded values.

can you send a patch? (read DOCS/tech/patches.txt)
>
> Thanks,
>     Gregor
>
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