[tex-live] problem with ../configure --datarootdir=...

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Mar 2008, at 8:41 pm, Peter Münster wrote:

>
>> Maybe you can submit a patch to support --datarootdir to the ICU  
>> project
>> (see <http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/>). If it gets integrated  
>> there,
>> we'll inherit it in TL next time I merge a new release.
>
> Ok, done: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/6214

Is patching "configure" itself the right way to approach this? I'd  
have expected a patch to configure.in or some other "source" file,  
not the generated script.

JK