Re: Bug#234991: elinks: missing gettext support
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:27:33AM +0100, Peter Gervai wrote:
> It's funny that you say that because just yesterday I tried to debianize
> another package (for myself) and realized that the "prefix" just did what
> you said: partially worked. I cannot tell whether it's an autoconf/automake
> bug or not (but I suspect it is, apart from not having the time to actually
> track it down). I had to change it to DESTDIR.
It depends on the package, but sysconfdir usually isn't controlled by
prefix (/etc not being a subdirectory of /usr). DESTDIR can be a better
option.
> I'll change in elinks, too. I don't know whether that's a good approach or
> not (deb-make creates the 'prefix' form, and it seemed to be right so far).
> All automagically debianised package seem to use prefix form, too...
*shrug* If it works, use it and don't worry about it. If it doesn't,
don't.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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