Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[John Davidorff Pell]

On 19 Aug 2004, at 14:38, discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org wrote:
> On 2004-08-19 16:59:19 -0400 John Davidorff Pell <johnpell@mac.com> wrote:
> > :-/ The only people who want to be able to change the GNUstep installation
> > directory after build is packagers who need to roll out an installation into a
> > semi-arbitrary location. If the /user/ has to re-compile to install it in a different
> > location, then this defeats your whole argument.
>
> ... but if packagers need to do it, then the ability needs to be there still.

I don't understand. A packager should use $DSTROOT so that $PREFIX is still the same place, not to mention that with relative paths this does not matter.

JP


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