From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> It turns out that if people really use configure in autotools style and pass libdir containing '${prefix}/foo' then the ldconfig previously failed. This uses sed for portability (versus bash parameter expansion with substitution) and hopefully a bit more robustness than blindly parameter expanding the string. --- configure | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index ea8a1ad..460fcfc 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -236,7 +236,12 @@ done # Makefile.config file later like most values), because we need to # actually investigate this value compared to the ldconfig_paths value # below. -libdir_expanded=${LIBDIR:-${PREFIX}/lib} +if [ -z "$LIBDIR" ] ; then + libdir_expanded="${PREFIX}/lib" +else + # very non-general variable expansion + libdir_expanded=`echo "$LIBDIR" | sed "s|\\${prefix}|${PREFIX}|g; s|\\$prefix/|${PREFIX}/|; s|//*|/|g"` +fi cat <<EOF Welcome to Notmuch, a system for indexing, searching and tagging your email. -- 1.7.10.4