Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But wouldn't that only be for those directories where --datadir >> isn't passed down (as you explain in the paragraph quoted next), >> and where no `make install' is done anyway?
> No. Assume that someone just downloads teTeX-src and not teTeX-beta > tarball. Then, he unpacks teTeX-src and configures for a new prefix. > Your kpsewhich "trick" would activate his already existing texmf tree > as datadir. I guess that source package should not behave like this. > If the user specifies a prefix, then nothing else should go > outside You're right, I hadn't been aware of this consequence. > You can have a config.site file where you can specify system-wide > defaults, e.g. datadir=/usr/share or prefix=/usr. Just set CONFIG_SITE > or have config.site file in $prefix/share or $prefix/etc. > I think that this config.site "feature" of GNU configure scripts is > unknown to a large number of people... Probably ;-) Thanks for the hint. -- Stefan Ulrich
