The rewrite replaced a dozen lists that the old configure.in computed with
AC_SUBST(..., []) stubs. Every one of them feeds a
cp $(addprefix $(SOMEWHERE_DIR)/, $(SOMETHING_FILES)) $(DEST)
so an empty list became "cp <destination>" with no source, and the install
died at the first one. Worse, the executable lists were among them, so
even after getting past that nothing in bin was ever copied - an install
tree kept serving whatever binaries it already had, however many times the
source was rebuilt.
Restored, from what the old configure.in did:
FGLPC_SETTINGS_FILES listed from tools/4glpc/settings
ETC_FILES IMPORT_FILES CONVSQL_FILES listed from their directories
ROOT_FILES ALL_INC ALL_DOC explicit lists, existence filtered
ALL_SH AMAKE_SH AMAKE_BIN_EXE COMP_EXE RUNTIME_EXE the programs
AUBITETC was also being substituted as the literal '${prefix}/etc/aubit4gl'.
Makefile-common defines no 'prefix', so it collapsed to /etc/aubit4gl -
root owned, and the install failed for anyone not installing as root. It is
now expanded at configure time.
And the default prefix gets its writability check back: the old
configure.in fell back to a prefix under $HOME when /opt was not writable,
which the rewrite had dropped. An explicit --prefix is still honoured
exactly as given.
`make install` now completes and installs the programs.
