why does make install depend upon all?

2005-09-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Please see subject. Of course I would agree that this dependency is usually a good thing, but sometimes it might be helpfull to do a 'make install' for another prefix e.g. in your stow directory without verifying all the dependencies again. It would be easy to split the old install targ

Re: Problem with Automake, help requested!

2005-09-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stephen, * Stephen Ellwood wrote on Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:16:15AM CEST: > > Im currently writing a fairly nifty software project that makes use of GNU > autotools extensively, although in a very basic way. My aim is to create a > package manager in the style of RPM via automake. Im aiming