On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Robert Wyrick wrote: > I'm developing a package manager that aids users in installing > sofware (from source) into their home directories. Packages > are managed in a way VERY MUCH like GNU stow. The significant > feature of stow (and my package manager) is that there is a > distinction between runtime directories and install directories. > > I've noticed that some packages that utilize libtool have > problems with this because libtool has checks that make it > refuse to install libraries into a directory that doesn't > start with the location it was informed of at "configure" > time. libtool has no concept of separate runtime/install > time directories.
Libtool uses the DESTDIR environment variable to support this. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
