> > (2) ./Configure -des -Dprefix=~/appl -Dman1dir=none > > This one's more subtle, having to do with Configure's Prefixit unit, > and I'm not going to be able to fix it today (or indeed anytime soon). > The workaround is to use -Dman1dir=' ' (i.e. a single space). > (This works with either way of specifying prefix.) I thought it was a problem with Prefixit but the real problem seems to be that when I do ./Configure -des -Dprefix=~/appl none of the config varibles begin ~/appl, they all start /home/rmb1/appl (just like the *exp variables). I have a patch, which preserves the unexpandedness of the Directory output from getfile, when this is possible. Robin --- Configure.orig Fri Mar 17 13:30:35 2000 +++ Configure Fri Mar 17 13:57:21 2000 @@ -3311,13 +3311,15 @@ Directory) for fp in $gfpth; do if test "X$fp" = X.; then - pf="$ansexp" + dir="$ans" + direxp="$ansexp" else - pf="$fp/$ansexp" + dir="$fp/$ansexp" + direxp="$fp/$ansexp" fi - if test -d "$pf"; then + if test -d "$direxp"; then type='' - value="$pf" + value="$dir" break fi done -- Robin Barker | Eail: Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk CISE, Building 10, | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090 National Physical Laboratory, | Fax: +44 (0) 20 8977 7091 Teddington, Middlesex, UK. TW11 OLW | WWW: http://www.npl.co.uk