Jeremy Jones wrote: > Andy Leszczynski wrote: >> >>Is there any way to pass the prefix to the "make install"? Why "make" >>depends on that? >> >>A. >> > > What does it matter? If you *could* pass it to make, what does that buy > you? I'm not a make guru, but I'm not sure you can do this. Someone > else better versed in make will certainly chime in if I'm wrong. But I > think make just looks at the Makefile and does what it's going to do. > If you want different behavior, you edit the Makefile or you get the > Makefile created differently with configure.
That way you could install to a different directory without having to rebuild the whole thing. I don't think that uses case happens very often, but I've certainly encountered it (not in relation to Python though). -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
