Re: DeuTex 4.4.902 is out

  • From: Andre Majorel <amajorel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Jon Dowland <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:35:57 +0200

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/

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