On Aug 29, 2000, "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2000, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> So the only question is, should we change the default for --sysconfdir?
>> > Only if we also specify that packages shouldn't install anything in
>> > sysconfdir with `make install', only with `install-sysconf'.
>>
>> > Why do you think `make install' should not install them in /etc?
>>
>> Because `make install' is not supposed to install anything outside
>> --prefix. As I wrote before, people often install software as
> You're overlooking --exec-prefix, which is independent of --prefix.
Nope. exec_prefix defaults to ${prefix}. If the user specifies
--exec-prefix, it's ok to install something in there. My point is
that `make install' shouldn't install anything outside the trees
specified by the user at configure time.
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