[krbdev.mit.edu #8975] Apparent bug with configure and "make install"

[Mike Jetzer via RT]

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As I noted in my original report, this occurred with krb5-1.18.3.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 1:21 AM Greg Hudson via RT <rt at krbdev.mit.edu> wrote:

> I bet this only happens with the recently released autoconf 2.70. Near the
> top
> of configure.ac we have:
>
> # If $runstatedir isn't set by autoconf (<2.70), set it manually.
> if test x"$runstatedir" = x; then
> runstatedir=$localstatedir/run
> fi
> AC_SUBST(runstatedir)
>
> The compatibility code uses the immediate value of $localstatedir, while
> autoconf 2.70 presumably substitutes "${localstatedir}/run". Since we are
> sloppy and directly use @localstatedir@ and @runstatedir@ in Makefile.in
> files,
> the real version doesn't work for us.
>
> I will submit a PR next week to add appropriate definitions to config/
> pre.in
> and use $(localstatedir) and $(runstatedir).
>
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