The next replier may also drop me off this thread. It originally started with my question about building coreutils, and this thread is a result of someone commenting on my use of --prefix=/foo in an example. I wish you all the best in your quest for a resolution, but I have no relevance to this discussion.
Doug On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe his point is that this thread seems disproportionately > long (and cross-posted too widely) for the small potential benefit, > if ever something comes of it. > > Ralf doesn't need to read, or even respond to the thread if that is > the case. > > I like the blurb Eric suggested, > > Most packages support installation into a staging directory > (e.g. for packaging or testing purposes), by setting the > DESTDIR variable, as in @samp{make destd...@var{dir} install}. > -- Douglas Held [email protected] +44798652765 _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
