FYI, I have moved this discussion to the TeX Live ML as it is not texinfo related.
On Tue, 01 Nov 2016, Liviu Ionescu wrote: > no, I don't *need* to recompile the binaries, but past experience with many > other packages showed that some tools are not very happy when moved to a > different folder then the one they were compiled for, so, mainly for safety > reasons, I generally prefer to build everything from sources, with the actual > `--prefix` set correctly during `configure`. ... Norbert -- PREINING Norbert + TeX Live & Debian Developer + http://www.preining.info GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13