Re: Why does ./configure not set prefix and exec_prefix?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 19 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> 
> | I have run into something that seems really strange to me.
> | Autoconf will subst @prefix@ and @exec_prefix@ into a
> | Makefile, but while ./configure is actually running they
> | are not set. Here is a minimal example.

they're generated in config.status and aren't really usable as variables
themselves except via 'eval'

>       ./configure prefix=toto
>       
>       make prefix=/usr/local
> 
> This sucks too :(  IMHO, it should not be possible, and maybe it is
> now obsoleted by DESTDIR?

those are two entirely different sets of variables

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