2006/6/15, Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@xxxxxxxxx>:
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 ?
It makes links from .../usr/ to .../usr/stow/git/, for expample: $ls -l ~/usr/bin/git lrwxrwxrwx 1 santi santi 19 2006-06-01 09:42 /home/santi/usr/bin/git -> ../stow/git/bin/git*
If so, why can't you use prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git both in 'make' and in 'make install' ? Would this work ?
For the few tests I've made it does works, but it is not the recommended method from the stow developers, and I suppose they know better than me.
BTW, is it possible to have git use argv[0] to automatically determine the executable_dir without compiled-in paths ? Yakov
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