On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 22:40 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently PREFIX is an internal build.sh variable which is used > > to emit the --prefix option to all modules. > > > > Make this variable part of the public interface and pick-up the value > > from the environment. > > Currently the user is expected to supply the PREFIX on the build.sh > command-line. If the user's environment defines a variable named > PREFIX and the user supplies the PREFIX on the cmdline, which one is > supposed to win? If the environment defines the PREFIX should we > remove the requirement to supply it on the cmdline?
From my experience, the command line takes precedence over the environment variable. I don't think this is written anywhere, it seems to be a convention. Someone with more UNIX experience can perhaps confirm this.
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