Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default

[Jens Petersen]

Jens Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:

> I hope this does "the right thing".  When testing autoconf
> versioning outside PATH, it's rather annoying autoconf can't
> find its autom4te by itself, hence this patch.
> 
> 
> 2001-11-12  Jens Petersen  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * bin/autoconf.in (AUTOM4TE): Prefix with bindir, so that autoconf
>       runs even when it is installed outside the current PATH.

Did anyone have time to consider this patch?  Is it
considered useful or not?

Jens

> Index: bin/autoconf.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autoconf.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.142
> diff -u -r1.142 autoconf.in
> --- bin/autoconf.in   2001/09/20 14:55:49     1.142
> +++ bin/autoconf.in   2001/11/12 08:45:34
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
>  if test "${LC_MESSAGES+set}" = set; then LC_MESSAGES=C; export LC_MESSAGES; 
> fi
>  
>  # Variables.
> -: address@hidden@}
> +: address@hidden@/@address@hidden
>  dir=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's,[^\\/]*$,,'`
>  outfile=
>  verbose=: