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Re: [Makefile] Stop unnecessarily rebuilding gcc, cc1, et al.

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Kelley Cook <kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 02 Jul 2004 14:24:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [Makefile] Stop unnecessarily rebuilding gcc, cc1, et al.
References: <40E59340.9010400@gcc.gnu.org><874qoqtjod.fsf@taltos.codesourcery.com><Pine.LNX.4.58.0407021806580.14779@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

> There is a theory of the GNU Coding Standards (as expounded e.g. in the
> Autoconf manual) that users must be able to say "make prefix=whatever" and
> override that specified at configuration time.

I'm not sure that anybody thinks that should cause any programs to be
recompiled, though.  To me that is the old way of doing what we now do
via "make DESTDIR=/some/dir".

Ian

References:
- [Makefile] Stop unnecessarily rebuilding gcc, cc1, et al.
  - From: Kelley Cook
- Re: [Makefile] Stop unnecessarily rebuilding gcc, cc1, et al.
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: [Makefile] Stop unnecessarily rebuilding gcc, cc1, et al.
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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