GNU bug report logs - #14991
distcheck passes --prefix to configure before *DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>,
 Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>
Cc: 14991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 "automake-patches <at> gnu.org" <automake-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#14991: distcheck passes --prefix to configure before
 *DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:10:18 -0600

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On 10/30/2013 04:02 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] distcheck: don't allow overriding of --prefix and
>  --srcdir by the user
> 
> Not trough AM_DISTCHECK_FLAGS, nor through DISTCHECK_FLAGS.  Apparently,

s/trough/through/

> some packages got in the habit of relaying all the options passed to the
> original ./configure invocation through to the configure invocations
> in "make distcheck".  This was causing problems, because it also passed
> through the original --srcdir and --prefix options.
> 

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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