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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/.
I’m proposing something that is better than the prefix feature and makes it
obsolete.
In your suggestion, how does 'make install' know where to copy programs?
On Tue 2012-04-10, at 05:44 PM, Peter Johansson<[email protected]> wrote:
On 04/11/2012 09:01 AM, Dave Yost wrote:
Actually, I think the configure “prefix” feature should be deprecated.
Software should be written to find everything it needs at runtime relative to
the path of the invoked binary.
