HTSLIB Variable

[mkadlof]

Hi,

What's is wrong with passing value of --with-htslib with ${HTSLIB}?

lofreq/configure.ac

Line 193 in 54281cd

AC_MSG_ERROR([Use --with-htslib=/fullpath/to/htslibdir instead of HTSLIB variable])

[andreas-wilm]

Hello, it's a requirement of m4/ax_with_htslib.m4, which I'm using here.

[mkadlof]

I understand your point. May I suggest that it's worth considering a message change? The current message might give the impression that an absolute path is required, but in reality, the path can be provided using a variable with a different name, such as ${HTSLIB_PATH} or something similar. This aspect wasn't immediately intuitive to me, and I encountered some difficulties as a result.

I'm currently in the process of building a Docker container, and being able to pass paths via variables is quite valuable.