[Ecls-list] libdir: *nix vs. Windows

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Samium Gromoff
<_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:08:48 +0400, Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
>> However, @libdir@ is @prefix@/lib, which somehow works on Linux, and
>> breaks on MinGW.
>
> Ok, so "*mingw" have INSTALL_TARGET=flatinstall, which mashes bindir,
> libdir, includedir and ecldir together into $(prefix),
> /but this fact only surfaces during installation/!
>
> Which obviously breaks for code built with default *dir's.
>
> The preconditions for flatinstallation are set into motion within
> aclocal.m4.  Now, there is no way to enforce the above equality
> constraint between these variables in aclocal.m4, and so /it seems/ we
> should enforce it somewhere down below the substitution chain, upon
> detection of the impending flatinstall...

Or compute the right value of libdir (called ecl_libdir?) at configuration
time, so that everybody sees the same value.

-- Gaby