On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:36:45 +0200, A.T.Hofkamp wrote: > As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should only > change the place where > files are copied to, instead of injecting that new prefix into the source > code. However, for Python > source files that are generated/modified during installation, this does not > seem to hold:
really looks like you want to be using DESTDIR= instead of prefix=. i don't think the behavior described here in general is a bug in Automake. that said, we should be compiling the script as part of `all`. -mike