Brian Dessent wrote:
Asfand Yar Qazi wrote:
As I also said, I don't want to mess around with renaming and deleting stuff
inside my target directory, so I won't be doing that.
But the whole point of using --program-suffix is that you don't have to
do any of that. You just "make install" and the binaries have the
specified suffix, and they can happily coexist with other installed
versions. Renaming manually is definitely going against the grain when
the feature exists already in the build system.
Brian
As I already said, I don't like the way the build system installs the files.
I have to go around removing and renaming them, so why bother? So much
cleaner to copy across the one or two files I need and them make a symlink as
needed rather than going on an rm -f spree, so my path doesn't get polluted.
Not to mention all the libraries and headers that are installed that I don't
need, and would have to delete anyway, and not to mention not being able to
remove the files easily since I know exactly which file went where.
