Re: Why does ./configure not set prefix and exec_prefix?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 19 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas> (I'm told that people do reuse the makefiles without rerunning
> Thomas> configure)
> 
> This is my question :) My point is that the number of packages for
> which this works is vanishingly small.  Most packages I saw are
> encoding the paths in config.h, hence specifying prefix at make
> results in a broken installation.

I know that people use it, because I get bug reports (which I fix).
Perhaps you're paying too much attention to unmaintain(ed/able) programs.

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