[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 307352] PATCH: pass the --libdir argument to autogen

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307352
 jhbuild | general | Ver: unspecified





------- Additional Comments From James Henstridge  2005-06-13 01:39 -------
Thomas: you are working backwards.  With every other autogen.sh script, typing:
  ./autogen.sh anything

Will cause "anything" to be passed as an argument to configure.  You are arguing
the reverse: that arguments accepted by gstreamer's autogen.sh script are
acceptable to other scripts.

Furthermore, your assertion that other autogen.sh scripts accept "./autogen.sh
-- --libdir=foo" is false too, since the configure script won't accept those
arguments:
  $ ./configure -- --libdir=foo
  configure: error: unrecognized option: --
  Try `./configure --help' for more information.

If you want to pass extra information to your autogen.sh script, there are a
number of other options you could do while remaining compatible:
 1. use environment variables
 2. only pick out known options, and pass everything else through to configure.

As far as exceptions in jhbuild go, we don't actually have many (the biggest is
probably mozilla).  Given the choice, I prefer to get the module fixed.

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