------- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2009-01-25
17:19 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Specifically, most of the files I deal with have a source in a tree at
> /usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.27/*
>
> Now, what I would like to do is make a prefix so that if a package sets an
> absolute source dir like above, I can do
> /home/arjan/diagnostics/usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.27
> rather than sticking it in / where I would need root privs to install it
> (and where I would also not be able to make a more tiny namespace).
In one binary, you may have
/usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.27/fs/*
/usr/src/debug/kernel-2.6.27/net/*
/usr/src/foobar/*
How should prefix be handled? I think we may need
* --prefix=PREFIX to specify the prefix to add to the absolute paths.
PREFIX must be absolute as well, otherwise its value is ignored. The
default is no prefix.
* --prefix-strip=N to indicate the how many initial directory names
to strip off the hardwired absolute paths. Default value is 0. It
has no effect if PREFIX is undefined, empty or non-absolute.
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