From: Bob R. <bob...@co...> - 2006-12-20 14:34:46
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:28:04PM +0000, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting Brian Dessent: > >> You say DESTDIR is broken, I say overloading "prefix" by having it > >> take on two conceptually different and unrelated values is broken. > > It has nothing whatsoever to do with *overloading*; it is *overriding*, > plain and simple. > > Ok. So, I've configured for a *native* Win32 build, with a correctly > specified `--prefix=c:/mingw'. Now you would have me relocate, after > the initial build, by saying: > > make DESTDIR=/foo/ install > > which results in trying to install binaries into `/foo/c:/mingw/bin'. > Perhaps you, Brian, would care to explain how that could possibly be > considered to be anything *other* than broken. Then again, perhaps > you wouldn't, for there is clearly no other way to describe it. Keith, do you actually do --prefix=C:/mingw, or --prefix=/mingw? Thanks, Bob Rossi |