Hi,
> The workaround, of course, is to do something like:
>
> % configure --prefix=$cwd/install
>
> but it would be nice if the configuration process at least detected
> when you are trying to do an inline installation and warn you that it's
> not going to work properly.
>
> I think this is the same stuff I said last time I complained about
> this.
Are inline installations common? I've never heard of them before.
What if a package has the source of lib under lib, bin under bin, etc.
There could quite easily be conflicts.
Using --prefix=$cwd/install doesn't seem a great hardship. Or
alternatively, using GNU stow would allow multiple `installations' that
could be switched between with ease. That's how I handle package
updates of unknown quality (I don't mean nmh!). It also allows you to
see what package a file under /usr/local belongs to.
% ls -l /usr/local/bin/inc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 local local 34 Nov 27 17:59 /usr/local/bin/inc ->
../stow/nmh-0.27-forgefrom/bin/inc
Ralph.
