Re: [gnu.org #742057] Make standard targets

[Peter Johansson]

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On 04/11/2012 03:58 PM, Dave Yost wrote:
> I don’t understand the point of your message. What the prefix feature does is 
> well understood. And yes it is better than having the built program work only 
> in a fixed location, such as in /usr/local/.
>
> I’m proposing something that is better than the prefix feature and makes it 
> obsolete.

In your suggestion, how does 'make install' know where to copy programs?


> On Tue 2012-04-10, at 05:44 PM, Peter Johansson<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > On 04/11/2012 09:01 AM, Dave Yost wrote:
> > > Actually, I think the configure “prefix” feature should be deprecated.
> > >
> > > Software should be written to find everything it needs at runtime relative to 
> > > the path of the invoked binary.