Stefano Lattarini [off-list ref] writes:
configuration of the Git tree using the the autoconf-generated configure
script (as I do), he wants configure to Do The Right Thing automatically
in this regard too
$PATH before /bin and /usr/bin, and setting up an appropriate default for
SANE_TOOL_PATH in 'config.make.autogen' accordingly.
What would you think of a patch in this direction?
Yeah, that was exactly what I was suggesting, but it may not have been
obvious.
As I consider autoconf merely a secondary mechanism to set config.mak,
whenever I say "that is solved by local tweak in config.mak", letting
./configure to do that tweak automatically is already covered by that
suggestion.