Re: How to specify a different path for gnuplot.gih

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Per Persson wrote:

> I naively install gnuplot into a dir and then copy the contents to the 
> installer. The path to gnuplot.gih gets hardwired to that install 
> location. Setting --with-gihdir= didn't help, since it then tries to 
> install gnuplot.gih at that location.

It's supposed to work like this:

1) you ./configure all the files to the places they will have in the
actual installation at the user's end, so all internal hardcoded 
relations between are set up correctly.

2) You make

3) Now, it depends on how your installation package generator works. 
Either you just "make install", then tell the generator which files to
put into the installer (and it picks them up from that same location), 
or you
	make install prefix=/some/where
or	make install DESTDIR=/some/where

then build the installation package from what's under /some/where, and 
install that package on your own machine to make sure that everything 
worked out.

For more information about this, read the GNU automake and autoconf 
manuals, and possibly the GNU coding standard.  We're not following that
latter standard strictly, but the GNU auto tools try to, so most things 
will work as described there.