Patch (was: RE: Please, PLEASE, remove the BASEDIR from Makefile)

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-technical at samba.org [mailto:samba-technical at samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Alexandre Oliva
>
> Nope.  The design decision of autoconf was that only a small set of
> standard options would be accepted without prefixes such as
> --enable/disable/with/without-*.  But then, we could change the
> --sysconfdir default, which is $prefix/etc; it is the natural choice
> for configuration files.
>


Exactly this is not possible (in clean way). The only directory, that can be
changed in configure.in, is --prefix. It is possible to override any
directory 'course, but ./configure --help will still show standard values.
And this will be _really_ confusing.