[mosh-devel] --prefix of bash-completion? (wishlist?) Mosh 1.2.5 release candidate 2

[Anders Kaseorg]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, C.v.St. wrote:
> I just run the "configure/make install" to test and added --prefix=$HOME 
> assuming it would need nothing more to restrict it, to only be in my own 
> $HOME.
> 
> Too late I see, that "--enable-completion" does not follow the prefix 
> and can not be installed this way.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this 'inside the git repo' by the standard 
> mechanisms, or could you create a warning and leave 'completion' 
> disabled on the non-standard paths?

You asked for --enable-completion (it defaults to disabled), so mosh 
installs its completion file to the directory it knows bash-completion 
will read it from, via `pkg-config --variable=completionsdir 
bash-completion` (on my system, /usr/share/bash-completion/completions).  
If the completion file were installed to your home directory, it would not 
be used.  In fact, keeping in mind that the default prefix is /usr/local, 
if mosh tried to follow the prefix, it would almost never find the right 
directory.

Anders