Fixing a bug in Synaptics driver but autogen ignores prefix

Andrea G. Monaco monacoandrea94 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 18:29:29 UTC 2020


 >  I don't think there's a configure flag for it but you can hack around that
 >  locally.


Thanks Peter, now I found it.

But I'm still perplexed: I think that a software package should fully
respect the prefix it is given at configuration time.
Think about the most common GNU+Linux distributions: they usually put
package files as managed by their package systems under the /usr tree and
leave /usr/local for software built locally, for example using the
autotools (which in fact use /usr/local as default prefix).

What do you think about modifying this? Could it break something else?


Warmly,
Andrea Monaco


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