>>>>> "Garst" == Garst R Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Garst> prefix = /usr/local/bin Now that's dumb. I discovered it when Garst> tried to run man and found /usr/local/bin/man/man1/lyx.1 Garst> reLyx.1 with ls the of course /usr/local/bin/bin/lyx noweb2lyx Garst> reLyX Garst OK, actually I see it here too :( This is a bug in autoconf 2.5x, which seems to be fixed in current autoconf cvs. Considering that the implementation of AC_PREFIX_PROGRAM (the macro which searches for existing lyx and sets prefix acordingly) is broken on some autoconf version, that Herbert had problems with is (installation in /usr/bin/bin due to Suse stupid PATH), and that the code of the macro says (especially the last line): # Guess the value for the `prefix' variable by looking for # the argument program along PATH and taking its parent. # Example: if the argument is `gcc' and we find /usr/local/gnu/bin/gcc, # set `prefix' to /usr/local/gnu. # This comes too late to find a site file based on the prefix, # and it might use a cached value for the path. # No big loss, I think, since most configures don't use this macro anyway. I hereby propose to simply remove the use of this macro. JMarc
