From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] Substitue configure variables in Paths.mk.in Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:48:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1412092137.31276.9.camel@citrix.com> References: <1411658423-18877-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1411658423-18877-11-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1411658423-18877-11-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Olaf Hering Cc: Ian Jackson , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 17:20 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > This patch lays the groundwork to convert variables used in Makefiles > to the common automake style, i.e. PREFIX becomes prefix, MANDIR becomes > mandir and so on. > > The reason is that configure variables such as mandir expand to > ${datarootdir}/man, and datarootdir expands to ${prefix}/share. This > requires extra expansion in configure.ac before assigning to MANDIR. > > Special care must be taken when variable substition is done in other > files, such as xencommons.in. All @VARIABLES@ used in these files have > to be the expanded version, or all other variables must be available at > runtime. > > This patch by itself changes nothing, but upcoming changes will make use > of the lowercase variables. > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Acked-by: Ian Campbell