http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46607
--- Comment #4 from joseph at codesourcery dot com <joseph at codesourcery dot com> 2010-12-13 18:39:47 UTC --- On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, rwild at gcc dot gnu.org wrote: > So is this only about the MinGW case? Because there, we should just fix > libtool to not ever relink. No, it's about the general issue; MinGW is simply one of the cases where the "make install prefix=" semantics are preferred to DESTDIR (but in general when dealing with lots of versions of lots of software each may have cases where the other doesn't work).