Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> writes: > I know that GNU coding standards really want package developers to allow > one to be able to override the prefix at "make install" time and "it > should just work". While I appreciate the goal and sentiment, sometimes > that just isn't easy or feasible to do.
I disagree. It's worked relatively well for years and with some caution will continue to work fine for nearly all packages on modern OSes. It poses a few problems for libtool on particular architectures with weird linking and shared library search issues, but those architectures are becoming increasingly less common. Thankfully, I just misunderstood the footnote entirely and nothing about this change will affect that continued position. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
