CF: configure.in problems

[Bob Tanner]

I am running 

  - RH 6.0 with kernel 2.2.13.
  - autoconf-2.13-5
  
When I use the --enable-old-layout=yes option, both the datadir and
localstatedir get set. The problem is the following code:

if eval "test x$old_layout = xyes"; then
        ndatadir=`eval echo ${datadir}`
        nlocaldir=`eval echo ${localstatedir}`

With the eval in there using a localstatdir of
'${DESTDIR}'/var/lib/games/crossfire gets evaluated to just
/var/lib/games/crossfire

To test this, I inserted the following code:

if eval "test x$old_layout = xyes"; then
        ndatadir=`eval echo ${datadir}`
        nlocaldir=`eval echo ${localstatedir}`
        echo "Debug : ${localstatedir}"
        echo "Debug : ${nlocaldir}"

The output is as follows:

Debug : ${DESTDIR}/var/lib/games/crossfire
Debug : /var/lib/games/crossfire

Removing the eval so the code looks like this:

if eval "test x$old_layout = xyes"; then
        ndatadir=`eval echo ${datadir}`
        nlocaldir=`echo ${localstatedir}`
        echo "Debug : ${localstatedir}"
        echo "Debug : ${nlocaldir}"

The output is as follows:

Debug : ${DESTDIR}/var/lib/games/crossfire
Debug : ${DESTDIR}/var/lib/games/crossfire

What I don't get is why ndatadir works fine, but the nlocaldir does not.

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