program-prefix does not work

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Sat Oct 20 07:09:28 EST 2001


On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:54:08PM -0700, Bryan Chua wrote:
> the configure option --program-prefix does not work although it is 
> listed in the configure --help output.
> 
> The attached patch fixes these issues:
> 1) program prefix is not substituted in configure
> 2) program prefix is not present in Makefile
> 3) scp requires use of a known "scp" program

Won't changing the prefix on #3 cause a problem if you need to
interoperate with other installations that don't have the prefix?
I would think on the wire you'd still need to use "scp" but your sshd
would need to translate that to ${program_prefix}scp.

- Dave Dykstra



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