Re: make install prefix=XXX to different prefix gives errors using gcc-4_1-branch

[Asfand Yar Qazi <email at asfandyar dot cjb dot net>]

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.