[tldistro] misbehaving configure (prefix + bindir option)

AH ahammington at mail.ru
Tue Mar 14 14:23:18 CET 2017


never mind, was due to build system declaring the same thing.


have a nice day


Am 14.03.2017 um 10:34 schrieb AH:
> Hello folks of texlive,
>
> i hope you already know what a great job you are doing in providing this
> huge tex-distribution ! thanks for that!
>
>
> While i am packaging for our linux distro, i found an inconsistency in
> documentation in regards to actual behaviour:
>
> doc states that prefix is (with the use of exec_prefix=prefix) prepended
> to bindir, but my configure-output says different.
>
> ( i have to mention using the rather old 20160523b-source.tar.xz) but i
> didn't see patches regarding that issue in the branch2016.
>
> maybe the doc is just misleading, in that one can think exec_prefix is
> set to prefix automatically.
>
>
> i hope it helps you and others.
>
> cheers,
>
> AH
>
>
> link to doc:
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html#Installation-directories
>



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