On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 02:48:16AM -0800, Timo Kluck wrote: > The problem was that the install root usually needs to be known at compile > time for the binary packages. I think that the location of the > $PREFIX/share/PACKAGE directory are usually put into the binaries by > config.h.
that is possible. but what is 'usually' supposed to mean? all packages i know of support a PACKAGE_DATA environment variable. that would be simple (and about time) to add to all the others. > Of course, if we compile the packages locally, that problem disappears > entirely. But I don't thinkg apt is really designed for that, so I'm not > sure if that's feasible. compiling locally is bad, of course YMMV. if apt is not the right tool (designed for it, or not), i'd still be interested in why. regards felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
