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Re: Bug#362584: xindy debian package



Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

>> - wouldn't it better to patch the Makefile to disable maintainer mode,
>>   instead of setting all those variables?
>
> Maybe. The problem is, that any Makefile can trigger a rebuild of the
> configure script, which triggers a rebuild of the Makefiles, which
> breaks my patches.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00519.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/06/msg00143.html

Hm, did you check the clamav package which Stephen Gran recommended? 

>> - Isn't it possible (and if yes, a cleaner approach) to pass --docdir 
>>   already to the configure call, not make install?
>
> No, the docdir is hard coded in doc/Makefile.am as $(datadir)/doc/…
> which is /usr/doc/…

Ah, weird.  Until upstream has changed that, you're right.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)



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