* Perry Hutchison: > Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm not convinced that this covers that particular corner case (build >> at install time using a prefix setting that is different from configure >> time). > > Can you describe a use case for this? It seems very odd. Use case for what? Building under “make install” (because it's the first make invocation)? I don't see a use case for that. DESTDIR support, as you point out, is a very useful feature. Thanks, Florian