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Re: 1.0 sucessfull, install params questions
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: 1.0 sucessfull, install params questions
- From: Michael Poole <poole+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:18:30 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-To: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <9712121155.ZM312@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>you write:
> > on a i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (something between Redhat 4.2 and Redhat 5.0,
> > withlibc 5.3.12 as development lib):
> Congrats.
>
> > make install prefix=/tmp/usr/local program-prefix=e
> --prefix must be used at configure time, not at install time. Trying
> to do it at install time is just going to lead to problems later.
Why is this? Tools like Stow (which manages symlink trees
for you) and Depot (which does quite a bit more) generally require
separate a prefix and install-prefix; is having $(prefix)/foo a symlink to
some other location going to cause problems with egcs (for each foo in
the installed egcs files) in and of itself?
- Michael