[tlbuild] Configure issues with texlive-20091107

[Angel Tsankov]

Norbert Preining wrote:

> Why don't oyu do it like most of the other packagers do:
> 	- build normally and install into source/inst

Is source/inst a certain path or do you mean any path?

> 	- then *copy* what you need to the right places

Assuming that *copy* means *move*, I am afraid this strategy could break 
paths to the moved files.  Suppose a configuration file is installed in 
/bla/bla/etc/config because I've configured TL with --prefix=/bla/bla or 
with --sysconfdir=/bla/bla/etc.  Moving the config file at the end of 
the build is essentially *lying* about its intended location -- there 
might be a program that expects to find the file in ${sysconfdir}/config.

 > That is 100 times easier than tweaking the configure and then
 > searching for wrongly made stuff?

Well, I think that the main purpose of configure is exactly this one -- 
to tweak an installation...


Regards,
Angel Tsankov