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./configure warning (PR#14104)

2 messages · thoralf.dassler at gmail.com, Brian Ripley

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thoralf.dassler at gmail.com
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Version: devel_2009-12-01
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (146.87.149.164)


Can ./configure be made/told to look in

/usr/share/texmf/bin
instead of
/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin

for pdftex and pdflatex?

This saves me from creating symlinks, which, once there, create issues with
other programmes I am trying to compile.

Thanks
Brian Ripley
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It's odd to have a architecture-specific directory (bin) under a 
no-architecture one (/usr/share).

But why have you filed a question as a bug report?  See the section 
BUGS in the FAQ.

Simply, configure looks along your path for executables, so set the 
path suitably when running configure: it captures the full paths of 
the selected exectuables.  E.g. I have

R_LATEXCMD=${R_LATEXCMD-${LATEX-'/usr/texbin/latex'}}

because I had /usr/texbin in my path when I configured R.
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, thoralf.dassler at gmail.com wrote: