[BRLTTY] Minor build issue on brltty-6.9 branch

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Tue Feb 10 16:15:50 UTC 2026


[quoted lines by Elias Oltmanns on 2026/02/10 at 10:02 +0100]

>Actually, things seem to be a bit more tricky than I had originally
>thought. Just for completeness' sake, I ran:
>
>$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
>$ make
>$ ./Tools/luacmd libdir
>/usr/lib/lua/5.4
>$ ./Tools/pythoncmd libdir
>/usr/lib/python3.14
>
>In this case, I would have expected to find the prefix /usr/local
>reflected in the output of the libdir queries. 

No, actually. The --prefix= option of brltty's configure command is for where to install brltty things - not where to put other things. Python is asked where to put Python things and Lua is asked where to put Lua things.

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