It turns out that if people really use configure in autotools style and pass
libdir containing '${prefix}/foo' then the ldconfig previously failed.
This uses sed for portability (versus bash parameter expansion with
substitution) and hopefully a bit more robustness than blindly
parameter expanding the string.
# Makefile.config file later like most values), because we need to
# actually investigate this value compared to the ldconfig_paths value
# below.
-libdir_expanded=${LIBDIR:-${PREFIX}/lib}
+if [ -z "$LIBDIR" ] ; then
+ libdir_expanded="${PREFIX}/lib"
+else
+ # very non-general variable expansion
+ libdir_expanded=`echo "$LIBDIR" | sed "s|\\${prefix}|${PREFIX}|g; s|\\$prefix/|${PREFIX}/|; s|//*|/|g"`
+fi
cat <<EOF
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