Hi Matt, * Matt Kraai wrote on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:44:20PM CEST: > I'm trying to use Stow on an HP-UX 10.20 system. The Stow manual > recommends specifying one prefix at configure time and then overriding > it at install time. That is, > > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME > ... > $ make > ... > $ make install prefix=$HOME/stow > ... > > When I try this, it installs files using the original prefix (i.e., > $HOME), not the override (i.e., $HOME/stow).
> If I enable UNIX95 behavior in the system make (which enables support > for MAKEFLAGS) or use GNU Make, the prefix can be overridden at > install time. > > Is there anything Automake could or should do to address this problem? Not too much, it's a feature/limitation of HP-UX (and several other non-GNU) make. You can use env prefix=$HOME/stow make -e install as a workaround, but note that this also causes other variables in your environment to override make macros in the makefiles, which may not be desirable. Well, since Automake provides AM_MAKEFLAGS with all recursion, I guess you can also use make install prefix=$HOME/stow AM_MAKEFLAGS=prefix=$HOME/stow that should work as well. Cheers, Ralf
