[sane-devel] Re: Sane installed twice

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:49:14PM +0000, Major A wrote:
> I have a suggestion though: why not create a file install-info.sh.in
> or similar which contains simple echo statements? This would then be
> m4-ed by the configure script and all paths substituted by m4 (thus
> eliminating the deep reference problem). When the configure script
> finishes its work, it simply executes the file install-info.sh which
> has just been created.

Maybe we should just add the additional flags for libdir etc to
tools/sane-config.in.

> The file could also just contain the actual text that is printed, and
> configure could just cat it. That would be better because it would
> make the file human-readable, so one can easily look up where things
> have gone from this source tree.

But it doesn't solve the problem. E.g.:

Libraries: @libdir@

results in:

Libraries: ${exec_prefix}/lib

See also the Makefiles.

Bye,
  Henning