Re: 2.99.4 release

Thomas Esser <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:25:26 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> a) there is a man page for "lambda" but no binary/tool gets installed

texk/web2c/fmtutil.in has that line. It might be, however, that some
older fmtutil.cnf file shadows the newly installed one.

> b) installation to $DESTDIR vs. $prefix :
> 
> for "make install" the makefiles in utils/texinfo and utils/texi2html 
> use both $DESTDIR and $prefix for destination location while most other
> tools/directories install to (only) $prefix.

These use automake and follow the GNU standards and that's also where
Olaf want's to go to (switch to autoconf) with web2c. teTeX-3.0 will
use something like web2c-7.5.3 (with some smaller changes), so a uniform
usage of DESTDIR / prefix for all packages in teTeX-3.0 is not feasible.

Thomas