Ralf wrote: > What I meant was this: > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install exec_prefix= > > with Automake 1.10.2, most likely ends up with an error at installation > time, or with "install" overwriting files in the build tree or so. And > this: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install exec_prefix= DESTDIR=/tmp/dest > > most likely copies executable files into the /tmp/dest directory, which > doesn't seem desirable either. So, for both of these cases, Automake > 1.11 will not install executable files at all. > > This change in funtionality only affects cases where an installation > directory has been set to the empty string. It should not affect your > use case for stow at all. > > Hope that clears this up.
Reading the doc pages for automake, it looks like automake should not install *anything* if either prefix or exec_prefix is the empty string, under any circumstances. So if one was trying to effect some interesting local policy described above, make install exec_prefix=/ DESTDIR=/tmp/dest or make install prefix=/ DESTDIR=/tmp/dest would be the way to do that, right? H
