On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 18:49, D. Stimits wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
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> Environment variables pass through to Makefile variables. Having
> environment variables set to some of the values, whether it is
> XERCESCROOT, THREADS, CC, or CXX, means you have done the equivalent of
> explicitly naming those values. Having environment variables set means
> you have not used a single default setting. To test what I am saying,
> one must not have Makefile variables set in the environment.

Yada yada. If I'm not aware of having set any other environment
variables, is it likely that I have set any other environment variables?

 Not only
> have I also tested this, others have verified it. Your environment may
> be fooling you into believing there is no bug.

If you read the mails, you would see that we have all agreed that this
*is* a problem when the prefix is not specified. Someone has already
posted a partial fix for this.

> 
> D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> PS: Having XERCESCROOT not default to the root of the tarball unpack,
> and having it require manual intervention, is clumsy. It interferes with
> clean install of Xerces-c within compound projects. No, it isn't a bug,
> but it would be better if a build didn't have to be told where its own
> location is in order to build, it could detect this easily enough if not
> manually specified.

I agree. Do you have a patch to add this behaviour?

-- 
Murray Cumming
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www.murrayc.com


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