On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Tom Tromey wrote:
Harald> Please see subject. Of course I would agree that this Harald> dependency is usually a good thing, but sometimes it might Harald> be helpfull to do a 'make install' for another prefix e.g. Harald> in your stow directory without verifying all the dependencies Harald> again. This is traditional; there is no hard requirement for it in the spec, it is just the "way things were done", at least in the GNU world as I understood it back then.
If 'make install' does not depend on all, then it may misbehave since necessary dependencies may not be built. Regardless of unexpected side-effects (to the user), it is the technically correct thing to do.
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