I've been thinking (shock!), and it seems to me that it wouldn't break anything majorly if we did expand all the $prefix-dependant variables. The reason being, practically everyone uses automake these days, and automake defines all installation paths to be prefixed by $DESTDIR, which is empty by default.
Since the only reason I've been given to keep the variables unexpanded is so that you can do: ./configure --prefix=/usr make make prefix=/tmp/usr install cd /tmp tar cfz binary-tarball.tgz usr this seems to me to be a bit of a redundant feature. Regards, Philip Willoughby Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK -- echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku" Why reinvent the wheel? . . . . . . . . . Because we can make it rounder...
