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Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in libtool install mode usage text


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in libtool install mode usage text
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:31:13 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:23:42PM CET:
> On Monday 26 January 2009 14:27:43 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > I did consider renaming the option to match the documentation instead,
> > and am not sure which was better; typically, the user never needs to use
> > this option.  Have you?
> 
> i was working with a package that doesnt use automake but does use libtool 
> and 
> was trying to figure out if i needed to tell libtool about installing 
> temporarily into DESTDIR rather than the real root.  if libtool keys off of 
> DESTDIR in the env (and it seemed to), then no, i didnt need to use this 
> option

libtool just looks if the install dir is a prefix of the argument that
was passed to -rpath at link time, and uses that as inst_prefix_dir.

Cheers,
Ralf




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