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On 04/11/2012 03:58 PM, Dave Yost wrote:
> I don’t understand the point of your message. What the prefix feature does is well understood. And yes it is better than having the built program work only in a fixed location, such as in /usr/local/.
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> I’m proposing something that is better than the prefix feature and makes it obsolete.
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In your suggestion, how does 'make install' know where to copy programs?
> On Tue 2012-04-10, at 05:44 PM, Peter Johansson<
trojkan@...> wrote:
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>> On 04/11/2012 09:01 AM, Dave Yost wrote:
>>> Actually, I think the configure “prefix” feature should be deprecated.
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>>> Software should be written to find everything it needs at runtime relative to the path of the invoked binary.
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