Re: guile & automake

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I would say that it is not in general OK for a package to install
> > things under a different prefix than it was configured with.
> 
> Though it is *very much appreciated* when packages are written so that
> "make PREFIX=`pwd`/debian/tmp` install" works.

Yes, but that's a different issue, no?  It would only be made worse by
packages that install in 'non-configured' places.

> > Rob, should we add that to README-PACKAGING?
> 
> Perhaps, though don't many other packages do that unconditionally?
> (i.e. look in /usr/local as well as /usr)

I don't know.  Should we do that?  I'd say no.

> I'd need to think about this a bit, but if we were going to look in
> /usr/local/, I suspect we'd probably want a bit more sophistication,
> perhaps adding both /usr/local/share/guile/<VERSION> and
> /usr/local/share/guile in that order.

That was the (etc.) part.

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