[THRIFT-4912] Configuring with $JAVA_PREFIX leads to $JAVA_PREFIX/usr/local/lib

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Build Process
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ben Pavon
• Created: 26/Jul/19 14:35
• Updated: 28/Jul/19 14:38

Description

While configuring thrift-0.12.0 on Red Hat Linux and targeting Java and Perl, I used --prefix and defined $JAVA_PREFIX and $PERL_PREFIX in order to control where Thrift is installed. Both --prefix and $PERL_PREFIX worked as intended. However, setting $JAVA_PREFIX resulted in $JAVA_PREFIX/usr/local/lib. This is because of the following code in the configure script:

if test "x$JAVA_PREFIX" != x; then :
JAVA_PREFIX="$JAVA_PREFIX/usr/local/lib"
elif test "x$PREFIX" != x; then :
JAVA_PREFIX="$PREFIX/usr/local/lib"
else
JAVA_PREFIX="/usr/local/lib"
fi

I believe the above code should be replaced with one that sets $JAVA_PREFIX to /usr/local/lib only if it is not defined.