[asterisk-bugs] [DAHDI-tools 0015391]: Configuration directive --prefix=/usr fails to apply to menuselect subdirectory

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15391 
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Reported By:                Hendrik Schaink
Assigned To:                tzafrir
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Project:                    DAHDI-tools
Issue ID:                   15391
Category:                   General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2009-06-24 15:13 CDT
Last Modified:              2009-06-24 16:23 CDT
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Summary:                    Configuration directive --prefix=/usr fails to apply
to menuselect subdirectory
Description: 
On Debian Lenny v5.0.1, when configuring the (dfsg) configuration in 
/usr/src/dahdi-tools-2.2.0/ like this:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man \
--infodir=/usr/share/info
the "--prefix=/usr" directive has no influence on the destination
directory for Perl modules such as Chans.pm, Span.pm.

I would expect / appreciate the directive "--prefix=/usr" to be followed
down into all subsequent configuration runs, including the auto-invoked
ones. 
I'm trying to make Debian packages following dfsg guidelines for use on a
pure production machine _without_ development environment.

The result is that in /usr/src/dahdi-tool-2.2.0/menuselect/mxml/config.log
the invocation command defaults to "--prefix=/usr/local" and thus Perl
modules are installed into "/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/" rather than the
expected 
"/usr/share/perl/5.10.0/"

Could this behaviour be related to the fact that GNU Autoconf versions
2.61 are used for ./configure and ./menuselect/configure while version 2.59
is used in ./menuselect/mxml/configure ? I am afraid I'm not knowledgeable
enough to know the difference between the version.

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 (0106944) tzafrir (manager) - 2009-06-24 16:23
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15391#c106944 
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Why do you want a different path?

See the following patch used in the official packages, as well as its
rationale:

http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/dahdi-tools/1:2.2.0~rc3-1/zaptel_perl

I strongly suggest you stick with the recommendation of the distro rather
than starting to modify PERL5LIB. 

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2009-06-24 16:23 tzafrir        Note Added: 0106944                          
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