Al,
On 2004 Oct 12 , at 16.39, Alasdair Allan wrote:
> Norman Gray wrote:
>> There is a slight wrinkle with STAR_CHECK_PROGS when it has a non-null
>> second argument. Since it does its searching at configure time (ie,
>> before anything is built), the things it's looking for won't exist if
>> you're doing a build from scratch. So what it does is hope for the
>> best, and substitute @PROHLP@ (for example) with just `prohlp', hoping
>> that your path does end up including the appropriate directory. Any
>> makefile using pro* just has to know what it's doing; this is OKish
>> since sst isn't a public package anyway.
>
> So you're saying that if I put STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX/bin/sst in my
> path
> then this problem will go away?
Yes, that would do it. But it would fix it for you alone, and it would
be better to adjust the (few) relevant Makefile.am so that they don't
depend on that. The just-in-time PATH alteration I suggested would
probably do it.
Norman
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