Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ> I think that make install prefix= should continue to work so
> Russ> that we don't have to resort to ugly hacks like that to force
> Russ> DESTDIR into doing things it wasn't designed for originally.
> If the prefix= trick goes away you can always hack install-sh to do
> almost anything.
The whole point, though, is to (a) use exactly the same method with every
package (and make install prefix= is more widespread than just autoconf;
it works fine with many packages that have never seen an autoconf script)
and (b) to avoid having to modify any code in the package so that we don't
have to maintain and track local patches except where absolutely
necessary. And getting packages to use a specific install is often
rather... interesting.
Plus, modifying install-sh to do this sort of thing is a lot of work, and
there's still the question of how to get various information into the
script. make install prefix= is actually really simple.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
