Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/29849: autoconf (port version) does not handle INSTALL environment correctly Message-ID: <200108181656.f7IGuD699205@h110.private>
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>Number: 29849
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: autoconf does not handle INSTALL environment variable correctly
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 18 10:00:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com>
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Astart Technologies AKA LPRng.com
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD h110.private 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
I was using autoconf to generate an update for a distribution and
found that when I set the 'INSTALL' environment variable the
value of INSTALL was not getting passed to 'sub configures'.
The culprit was a test in the configure acgeneral.m4 file:
it does:
ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
[ case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
[/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
*) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
esac
])dnl
but if the INSTALL variable is set to the empty string it
causes '../' to be passed to sub-configures. You want to add
a test for the empty string:
ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
[ if test -n "$ac_given_INSTALL" ; then case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
[/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
*) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
esac; fi
])dnl
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