On 2005-09-19 22:33 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:08:02AM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > > You'll have less to do with 4.4.902. All the email addresses have > > been mangled. Also, configure now handles the FHS distinction > > between /usr and /usr/local ($(PREFIX)/share/man for the former, > > $(PREFIX)/man for the latter, unless it's changed yet again). But > > I see you're setting PREFIX to "$(DESTDIR)/usr", in which case > > configure will go for $(PREFIX)/man anyway. I thought you would > > use chroot instead. > > I see what you mean about the configure script handling the FHS. That is > useful. > > Right now I am having a bit of trouble with the packaging, in relation > to the prefix/destdir business. It seems the debian approach to things > is to pass $(DESTDIR) to the Makefile during building (the Makefile's > argument may be called PREFIX, rather than DESTDIR). Forgive me if I am > wrong (highly likely, I think - I am feeling rather fatigued right now) > but it looks like, with 4.4.902, you can only influence these variables > at the configure stage. Correct. You can override $(PREFIX) without running ./configure again but that's not the intended use so you'll have to get intimate with the implementation. I'll look into the rest of your email tomorrow. -- André Majorel <amajorel@xxxxxxxxx> http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/