On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 05 December 2010, Jack Kelly wrote: >> Remark: This may be unrelated. >> >> I don't know about overriding in Makefile.am, but overriding $(prefix) >> is important for supporting GNU Stow. To set up a package for Stow, >> you configure for one prefix and install under another (note that this >> isn't the same as using $(DESTDIR) - that dumps the whole directory >> tree under the target path). >> >> Example: >> >> ./configure --prefix=$HOME >> make >> make prefix=$HOME/stow/foo-x.y.z >> cd $HOME/stow >> stow foo-x.y.z >> >> So whatever you do with the variable ordering, I hope it doesn't break >> overrides from the command line. >> > Oh, it must absolutely not break that, since the behaviour you want is > mandated by the GNU coding standards, and cannot be changed. Breaking > it would be a *grave* automake bug. So I guess you're safe in this > respect.
I'm glad you're on top of that. I just wanted to bring it up in case it had been forgotten. Thanks. -- Jack
