On 6/15/06, Santi <sbejar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:26 +0300, Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@xxxxxxxxx>: > Many times, I mistakenly used 'make prefix=... install' where prefix value > was different from prefix value during build. This resulted in broken > install. This patch adds auto-detection of $prefix change to the Makefile. > This results in correct install whenever prefix is changed. I do this each time I install packages from source. I keep them with "stow" and the usual sequence is: make prefix=/home/santi/usr make install prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git cd /home/santi/usr/stow/ stow -v git so with this auto-detection I'll compile some programs twice.
I'm not familiar with stow. Does stow create some kind of symlinks from /home/santi/usr/stow/git to home/santi/usr ? If so, why can't you use prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git both in 'make' and in 'make install' ? Would this work ? BTW, is it possible to have git use argv[0] to automatically determine the executable_dir without compiled-in paths ? Yakov - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html