[m-dev.] diff: Installation changes for easier packaging.

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Tue Sep 9 21:09:21 AEST 1997


Tyson Richard DOWD, you wrote:
> > I suggest you change that to
> > 
> > 	FINAL_INSTALL_PREFIX	= $(INSTALL_PREFIX)
> > 
> > and delete the comment in parentheses above.
> 
> No, that won't work because if I do
> 
> 	make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/foo/bar/dir/
> 
> then FINAL_INSTALL_PREFIX will be overridden also, which is exactly
> the sort of behaviour I don't want.

Oh.  I thought you were going to configure with --prefix=/tmp/foo/bar/dir
and then override FINAL_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr on the command line
rather than vice versa.  But the way you're doing it is fine.

> Perhaps the comments should be re-written.

Yes, that change makes it clearer.

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