Add a --libdir option to ./configure

This allows packagers to specify to which directory libraries should be
installed.

Signed-off-by: Ingmar Vanhassel <ingmar@exherbo.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a2af672d..1caff940 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ XAPIAN_CONFIG=${XAPIAN_CONFIG:-xapian-config-1.1 xapian-config}
 # Set the defaults for values the user can specify with command-line
 # options.
 PREFIX=/usr/local
+LIBDIR=${PREFIX}/lib
 
 usage ()
 {
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ Additionally, various options can be specified on the configure
 command line.
 
 	--prefix=PREFIX	Install files in PREFIX [$PREFIX]
+	--libdir=LIBDIR	Install libraries in LIBDIR [$LIBDIR]
 
 By default, "make install" will install the resulting program to
 $PREFIX/bin, documentation to $PREFIX/share, etc. You can
@@ -67,6 +69,8 @@ for option; do
 	exit 0
     elif [ "${option%%=*}" = '--prefix' ] ; then
 	PREFIX="${option#*=}"
+    elif [ "${option%%=*}" = '--libdir' ] ; then
+	LIBDIR="${option#*=}"
     else
 	echo "Unrecognized option: ${option}."
 	echo "See:"
@@ -271,6 +275,9 @@ CXXFLAGS = ${CXXFLAGS}
 # The prefix to which notmuch should be installed
 prefix = ${PREFIX}
 
+# The directory to which notmuch libraries should be installed
+libdir = ${LIBDIR}
+
 # The directory to which emacs lisp files should be installed
 emacs_lispdir=${emacs_lispdir}