Re: [issue] ./configure --prefix=$prefix --infodir=$prefix/share/info broken

I don't think you ever got an answer to this... Ville Skyttä writes: > "./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info" results in info files > being installed in /usr/share/xemacs-21.5-b28/info, --infodir ends up being > ignored (INFODIR_USER_DEFINED undef): > > if test "x$infodir_expanded" != "x${prefix_expanded}/share/info" > then > AC_DEFINE(INFODIR_USER_DEFINED) > else > infodir='${datarootdir}/${instvardir}/info' > fi That's a bug. It should be testing for its default.

> The whole *_USER_DEFINED stuff looks quite complicated to me. Why > not just always use the dirs directly no matter whether they were > given to configure or are set to its defaults? I think XEmacs looks for things harder when running in-place if *_USER_DEFINED are set. Those variables are actually visible to Lisp as `configure-*-directory'. Mike?