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Re: first draft of "relocatable" module


From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Subject: Re: first draft of "relocatable" module
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:39:17 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >I tend to just use --prefix=$HOME/inst$$.
> 
> FWIW, I like that better, too.  Or use some other path that only root
> can write to, like /opt or /nonexistent. 

I strongly recommend you use /nonexistent instead of $HOME.  If $HOME
is behind an NFS automounter, and your program searches for anything
in its $prefix, then this can slow things to a crawl.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery




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