mkdir /usr/local/texmf in configure?!

[Ingolf Koch]

Hi,

with sources updated on 980324 at about 1pm GMT, configure
tries to write stuff to /usr/local/texmf:

Configuring for a alpha-dec-osf4.0b host.
Created "Makefile" in /work/ingolf/egcs-current/build
mkdir: cannot write directory /usr/local/texmf
/usr/local/texmf: Permission denied
chmod: /usr/local/texmf/tex: No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot access directory /usr/local/texmf/tex
/usr/local/texmf/tex: No such file or directory
chmod: /usr/local/texmf/tex/generic: No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot access directory /usr/local/texmf/tex/generic
/usr/local/texmf/tex/generic: No such file or directory
chmod: /usr/local/texmf/tex/generic/config: No such file or directory
cp: /usr/local/texmf/tex/generic/config: No such file or directory
/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/MakeTeXupdate: /usr/local/texmf/tex/generic/config not a directory.
/usr/local/lib/teTeX/bin-osf4.0/texconfig: test: unknown operator Live

Maybe this has to do with the recent changes in the texinfo
subdirectory. IMHO, configure should never try to edit system
files/directories as it is (usually) not run with root privileges.

Ingolf
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Ingolf Koch         http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~ingolf/ 
FSU Jena, Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, 07740 Jena