Hello Karl, Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:33:42AM CET: > On 01/03/2011 05:00 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > > Thanks for the reference. Now that I know it, I suggest the Automake > > manual simply have a sentence with an xref to that node.
Yes, I agree with that, and I am still going to do that. You opened two bug reports originally (inadvertently), I only closed the one that was dealt with. Sorry if that was unclear before. > > Hmm, I'm not so sure that the GCS forbids doing the right thing (or that > > it has to stay that way even if it does), but I won't pursue it further. > > What the GCS requires is that you can do 'make prefix=/alternate/path' > and have that propagate through all the directory variables. Anything > learned at configure time can thus be rewritten at make time, so the > only safe place to record a directory variable's value is at make time. > I don't think this aspect of the GCS needs changing. > > One other thing to point out is that the GCS documents that 'make > install' should ideally not rebuild any source code, but that this ideal > is only possible if you either _don't_ use 'make prefix=...', or if you > use the same prefix in both 'make prefix=...' and 'make install prefix=...'. I don't think that is correct. In fact, I think it is entirely intended to be possible to use a different prefix= setting for the all and for the install targets, and the latter should still not rebuild sources. Sort of a poor-man's DESTDIR. You can see the usefulness on MSYS and DJGPP (where DESTDIR does not work due to drive prefix concatenation). (Of course Libtool doesn't support the non-DESTDIR way, but that's another story ...) Cheers, Ralf
