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

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 19 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Yep, my question is ``was the requirements over being able to specify
> prefix etc. at make time a first weak attempt to achieve a goal which
> is now properly solved with DESTDIR''.

$prefix may result in compiled-in paths,
$DESTDIR should not
but there's no reason that either has to be done only at configure time.

(I'm told that people do reuse the makefiles without rerunning configure)

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