Re: keeping $exec-prefix et al unexpanded

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Harlan Stenn wrote:
> 
> Why don't you use DESTDIR instead?

One excuse and one reason:

* I'm not confident that DESTDIR will work correctly for DJGPP. You can just
concatenate two DOS paths, e.g.: concatenating c:/foo and c:/djgpp/bin doesn't
make sense. DJGPP does support using /dev/<letter> instead of <letter>:, so
this can be avoided. Testing with automake 1.7.[23] recently indicates that
DESTDIR should work OK. So perhaps I should have more confidence in DESTDIR.

* As mentioned already, some projects use autoconf but not automake. Several
projects I've packaged for DJGPP only use autoconf.

> IE:
> 
>  > ./configure --prefix=/usr
>  > make
>  > make DESTDIR=/tmp install
>  > cd /tmp
>  > tar cfz binary-tarball.tgz usr

Bye, Rich =]

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