Re: HTML format documentation

[lars brinkhoff]

Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> please, tell me why you want that there are two different means to say
> the same thing?  Why do you want both
> 
>         ./configure --prefix=/foo
>         make
> 
> and
> 
>         ./configure
>         make prefix=/foo
> 
> ?
> 
> If the Makefile must support this feature, why should configure accept
> --prefix?

I use this to configure a package to look for its files in one place
        ./configure --prefix=/dir
but install it in another place:
        make install prefix=/dir/stow/package
.  A GNU program called stow is used to symlink the files installed
in /dir/stow/package to the corresponding locations in /dir.