Re: [BUG]: DESTDIR support not working correctly in xemacs 21.5.27

Hans de Graaff writes: I see your point. Still, I don't think *we* should change our defaults, for backwards compatibility for users with an existing installation, and perhaps multiple installations of the core sharing a single package tree. OTOH, AFAIK for a distro specifying that requires adding --with-package-prefix[1] to the ./configure line and changing XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT in packages/Local.rules. The latter typically needs to be frobbed in any case, as different distros have varying ideas of the appropriate name for that directory. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think it's very hard to get what you want. If somebody wants to add code to configure.ac that detects an existing package installation under /usr/local/lib and warn that the default has changed (maybe configure should refuse to continue without a specific location for the packages in that case), I'd be willing to help with that as an acceptable (to me ;-) but I doubt anybody will object) transitional strategy to a conforming default. (Don't hold your breath waiting for me to do it though, my configure skills are pretty rusty and at least some of the install-directory-finding code has changed dramatically recently.) Footnotes: [1] Or whatever the flavor of the week is for that configure option. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta