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authorTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2000-04-05 21:12:43 +0000
committerTom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>2000-04-05 21:12:43 +0000
commit90837ca14883c0ca8c2accd90c79abda4ede5898 (patch)
treee44b315d068e7d6eb4c9cd7f45592db29714db54 /lib/am/header-vars.am
parent7d55ecd3456e1cc2f1a330d0eda09a460aa1212a (diff)
downloadautomake-90837ca14883c0ca8c2accd90c79abda4ede5898.tar.gz
* header-vars.am (DESTDIR): Commented out definition.
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diff --git a/lib/am/header-vars.am b/lib/am/header-vars.am
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+++ b/lib/am/header-vars.am
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ oldincludedir = /usr/include
@SET_MAKE@
-DESTDIR =
+## We used to define this. However, we don't because vendor makes
+## (e.g., Solaris, Irix) won't correctly propagate variables that are
+## defined in Makefile. This particular variable can't be correctly
+## defined by configure (at least, not the current configure), so we
+## simply avoid defining it to allow the user to use this feature with
+## a vendor make.
+## DESTDIR =
## Some derived variables that have been found to be useful.
pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/@PACKAGE@