Re: HTML format documentation

[Akim Demaille]

| 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.


*Please!!!*  I am *not* referring to `make install'.  I can understand
that people use such thing.  I am referring to what I wrote above.