Re: gnuplot-4.2.rc1: --program-suffix and gnuplot_x11

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Reiner Steib wrote:
> 
> 
>>I tried to install gnuplot-4.2.rc1 on GNU/Linux (SUSE 9.2) on both
>>i686 and x86_64.
>>
>>I want to install gnuplot to /usr/local which is shared between i686
>>and x86_64 machines.  
> 
> 
> This, rather than the interaction of autoconf's --program-suffix mechanism
> with how we install gnuplot_x11, is the root of your problem.  I've worked 
> in an NFS-mounted home directory shared among *completely* different
> platforms (x86/Linux, Alpha/OSF1 and Mips/ULTRIX).  My experience is that
> the only way to get that working properly is --exec-prefix, because that's
> exactly what this option is designed to do.
> 
> One --prefix fits all, but each platform gets its own --exec-prefix.
> 

Hans is ahead of me on this one.  I was just looking through the list of variables:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Installation-Directory-Variables.html#Installation-Directory-Variables

Does the following help to solve any problems:

./configure --libexecdir=\${exec_prefix}/lib$(uname -i)exec

What that does is define

libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libi386exec

in my src/Makefile rather than

libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libexec

Dan