netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 v5 0/7] configure: add support for libdir option

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Message-ID: <e892800e-b914-78c8-f6af-033a5dd2144e@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:02:03 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org, bluca@...ian.org, phil@....cc,
        haliu@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v5 0/7] configure: add support for libdir option

On 10/14/21 2:50 AM, Andrea Claudi wrote:
> This series add support for the libdir parameter in iproute2 configure
> script. The idea is to make use of the fact that packaging systems may
> assume that 'configure' comes from autotools allowing a syntax similar
> to the autotools one, and using it to tell iproute2 where the distro
> expects to find its lib files.
> 
> Patches 1-2 fix a parsing issue on current configure options, that may
> trigger an endless loop when no value is provided with some options;
> 
> Patch 3 fixes a parsing issue bailing out when more than one value is
> provided for a single option;
> 
> Patch 4 simplifies options parsing, moving semantic checks out of the
> while loop processing options;
> 
> Patch 5 introduces support for the --opt=value style on current options,
> for uniformity;
> 
> Patch 6 adds the --prefix option, that may be used by some packaging
> systems when calling the configure script;
> 
> Patch 7 finally adds the --libdir option, and also drops the static
> LIBDIR var from the Makefile.
> 

applied to net-next. Thanks for working on this.