> So for maximum portability you should support this in your > package, too. BTW, why do you state that overriding just $prefix > would be "almost always wrong"? In the w32 arena, overriding $prefix at `make install' time is unilaterally *correct*. Why can your staging area not mirror the structure of the eventual installation, with all alternative paths specified relative to $prefix, (as enshrined in GCS defaults)? Do it sensibly, and you shouldn't need the DESTDIR kludge, so... Using prefix is the real cludge, it has nothing to do with mirroring the staging area. Consider `./configure --prefix=/shared --exec-prefix=' (yes, empty exec_prefix), if you now do `make install prefix=FOO', things will not install properly, this is exacly why we have DESTDIR. Schemes like these are often used on systems that export their data using NFS. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
