[ On Thursday, September 7, 2000 at 05:51:46 (-0600), Richard Stallman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HTML format documentation
>
> Call it what you will, but that's explicitly what I mean -- a variable
> that will provide a prefix where all installation activities will occur
> but which will be invisible (i.e. not used) during run time.
>
> This sounds exactly the same as what exec_prefix does now.
Yes, but only to the point where exec_prefix applies. The documentation
clearly states that is is not to be used for architecture independent
files and indeed I've never seen anyone use it for anything sharable.
$(DESTDIR) in *BSD applies to every installation location.
> I see you THINK you are proposing a change that would have some benefit,
> but I do not see the benefit.
>
> How about if you simply state *precisely* and *clearly* what change
> you are proposing? Then I could at least consider it.
Perhaps my deep familiarity with the various incarnations of the *BSD
system build tools has left me without enough knowledge of where to
start in explaining this to someone else without first explaining the
entire *BSD build system....
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