[l2h] l2h installation conflict

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Today trying out some installation of the l2h code in the repository I met
a rather unusual problem. I was wondering if anyone has experienced this.
If you try to install latex2html from the sources at GitHub, with the
sequence

  ./configure
  make
  make install

and you do NOT have a local (personal) texmf tree -- the installation
proceeds fine, and places a bunch of files from latex2htmlmaster/texinputs/
 into

/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html.

Note: trying to install LaTeX2HTML style files in TeX directory tree
     (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html)
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/htmllist.sty
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/html.sty
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/techexplHTML.tex
Info: Installed /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/html/url.sty


some of them extremely old (20 years old), but the problem never appears
because the new files on

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/

take precedence and most stuff continues to work fine.

On the other hand though if you HAVE a personal TeXMF tree, then the
install script places the files in there:

Note: trying to install LaTeX2HTML style files in TeX directory tree
     (/home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html)
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/frames.sty
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/verbatimfiles.sty
Info: Installed /home/paulo/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty


and these take precedence over the system files (with kpsewhich) and
because of the old files a LOT of things break down with the TeX
installation, including biblatex -- because of the old "url.sty".

Three files are problematic because they share name space with files in the
TeXLive distribution.

                Repo       TeXLive 2016
floatflt.ins  1998/06/05    2008/03/17
url.sty       1999/03/02    2013/09/16
latin9.def    1999          2016


Paulo Ney
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