On Sunday 26 August 2007 14:38, I wrote: > [...] > c) "make install" gets an additional argument "prefix=/var/foo/usr" > (where "/var/foo" is some temporary place and "/usr" is what was stated in > the configure stage for "--prefix"), so everything gets installed > below "/var/foo/usr". After some checks "rpmbuild" picks up the files > there, but nevertheless the resulting stuff gets installed below "/usr" > later. [...]
Just another remark: The above is basically a hack because GHC's install phase was very non-standard. To follow the principle of least surprise, it would be good if we followed established conventions: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html So in a nutshell: Use configure's --prefix (and friends) for everything, and just prepend $(DESTDIR) when copying/installing files. On Windows things might be handled differently, but I don't care about that and we should not let this dictate the behaviour on other platforms. This shouldn't be too hard, given conditionals in Makefiles etc. Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
