Martin Landa wrote:
> what's the purpose of quotation marks around `$prefix`?
>
> configure.in:
>
> 166
> INSTDIR='${prefix}'"/GRASS-${GRASS_VERSION_MAJOR}.${GRASS_VERSION_MINOR}.app/Contents/MacOS"
> 168
> INSTDIR='${prefix}'"/grass-${GRASS_VERSION_MAJOR}.${GRASS_VERSION_MINOR}.${GRASS_VERSION_RELEASE}"
To prevent ${prefix} from being expanded in the resulting
Platform.make file.
> the result is
>
> Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-7.0.svn
>
> which is not really informative.
>
> I would suggest to remove these quotation marks in configure.log.
The current behaviour is intentional; it allows e.g.
"make install prefix=..." to work as expected.
The fact that make variables can be overriden on the command line
is[1] a significant factor in how Makefiles are structured.
[1] At least, it /should/ be a factor. Whether or not it actually is
depends upon whether the Makefile's author "gets" make.
--
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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