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Re: Why relink the library during make install?
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Why relink the library during make install? |
Date: |
01 Aug 2002 16:56:01 +0900 |
address@hidden (Stepan Kasal) writes:
> Bruno has explained this in another thread. Not that he doesn't like
> DESTDIR, he choosed DESTDIR over prefix for some reason and dived into
> libtool to make it work. He doesn't volunteer to fix libtool for
> prefix too.
I recall someone else on this thread saying that libtool _does_ handle
this correctly, at least for GNU systems; is that wrong then?
If it's a bug in libtool I guess that we should stop bugging Bruno and
start bugging the libtool maintainers instead.
> I remember that when working for SuSE, I've learned to prefer DESTDIR over
> prefix, since prefix doesn't work for all packages. I don't remember the
> actual packages, sorry. But it was about three years ago, so gettext
> definitely is not first package for which this doesn't work.
It's been a while since I had to do large number of non-local package
installations, but it certainly used to be the case that prefix worked
_far_ more often than DESTDIR (which usually simply wasn't implemented
at all). It may be that widespread adoption of automake has changed the
calculation (though I suspect not -- automake supports both, so at best
it's reduced the advantage of using prefix).
-Miles
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