On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:34:07 +0100 Emanuele Giaquinta <e.giaqui...@glauco.it> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:23:32PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:59:38 +0100 > > Marc Lehmann <schm...@schmorp.de> wrote: > > > > *your* automake-fu that doesn't respect the "prefix" env > > variable, > > > > which is > > > > > > We don't use any automake-fu anywhere, and the far majority of > > > software doesn't support this, which is entirely a debian > > > requirement. > > > > When you use autotools, you have to respect DESTDIR (not prefix= > > indeed). It has absolutely nothing to do with Debian, and since you > > don't seem to believe me (and I'm sure you'll say that I'm an idiot > > despite the pointers, but I couldn't care less), for the other > > interested people, here are the pointers: > > - http://sourceware.org/automake/automake.html#DESTDIR > > - > > http://sourceware.org/automake/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths > > which is *exactly* what you're doing: installing to a hard-coded > > (in tic) path. > > We do not use automake, only autoconf, and autoconf does not mandate > the use of DESTDIR. The GNU coding standards recommend (but not > require) DESTDIR > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#DESTDIR > > I concur that honouring DESTDIR also for terminfo files would be good > (we already honour it for all the other installed files) but trying to > push this as the root problem of the issue does not help. This is the root issue of why it isn't installed by default in Debian for ages, because the maintainers have missed that tic installed outside from the DESTDIR, that's all. *this* is the root of all the issues actually. All I say is that it's nicer if it's fixed at the rxvt-unicode level because it's really easy to miss (this Debian bug is just the proof of it) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
