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Re: gettext
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: gettext |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:45:53 -0700 |
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Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>> * For other platforms, in particular Linux, it is implementable,
>> under two forms: "make install DESTDIR=..." and "make install prefix=...".
>> These two forms are equivalent, as you demonstrated through
>> ln -s /afs/.example.com /tmp/destdir/afs/example.com
> That's obviously not equivalent. It again requires an extra minor step
> and requires people to change their build machinery from what used to
> work.
> That would still arguably be the right thing to do if make install
> prefix=... required you to do some additional work. But it doesn't. It's
> supported automatically by Automake, and was supported by previous
> versions of gettext.
> So I'll ask again: why drop support for a feature that people use?
Or maybe I'm confused, and you're talking about some other feature. The
more I read your message, the more I don't understand what you
implemented. libtool already doesn't relink binaries on Solaris or Linux
(or IRIX, or Tru64), so why would this issue even come up on those
platforms?
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- Re: gettext, (continued)
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/16
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/24
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/24
- Re: gettext, Stepan Kasal, 2002/07/25
- Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/25
- Re: gettext, Stepan Kasal, 2002/07/25
- Re: gettext, Miles Bader, 2002/07/25
- Re: gettext, Stepan Kasal, 2002/07/25
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/26
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/26
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- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/25
Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/16