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

[Russ Allbery]

Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I think the common case for almost everyone is "./configure ; make
> install"

> Doing an install into a different directory than you configured for may
> be possible with some packages, but I don't think it is the common case.

Yes, but I do it 100% of the time.  That's my point.  So do most other
sites that use AFS, which includes a lot of large educational and
commercial institutions.  We're rather used to having to deal with broken
packages that don't do the right thing, but by and large most GNU software
now will cope properly with this.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>