Thomas Esser writes: >> b) installation to $DESTDIR vs. $prefix : >> >> for "make install" the makefiles in utils/texinfo and utils/texi2html >> use both $DESTDIR and $prefix for destination location while most other >> tools/directories install to (only) $prefix.
> These use automake and follow the GNU standards and that's also where > Olaf want's to go to (switch to autoconf) with web2c. teTeX-3.0 will > use something like web2c-7.5.3 (with some smaller changes), so a uniform > usage of DESTDIR / prefix for all packages in teTeX-3.0 is not feasible. The treatment by web2c and kpathsea of $DESTDIR is uniform in that the variable is uniformly ignored. Bear in mind that $DESTDIR and $prefix complement each other, rather than replacing each other. So for example make install DESTDIR=/tmp/test/A prefix=/tmp/test/B should result in files being installed under /tmp/test/A/tmp/test/B. Note that texk/web2c/cwebdir/Makefile doesn't get this right. That file is unchanged from the original cweb source -- not adapted to web2c -- which is why it is not used. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)