[THRIFT-4118] configure.ac won't let me override the JAVA_PREFIX

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Build Process
• Labels: autoconf
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 13/Mar/17 20:44
• Updated: 13/Mar/17 21:47

Description

I'm a downstream packager for Fedora, and had to patch configure.ac, to set JAVA_PREFIX to /usr/share/java (like it should be in Fedora).

Normally, we'd just set this in the environment or on the command-line during the build, but the current configure.ac insisted on adding the suffix "/usr/local/lib" to whatever we set.

The build system should respect the user-provided value, instead of insisting on altering it.