> This is getting silly, maybe I should just ask for that > branch... :-)
Making a stink because you don't want to type --disable-install-runsystem in configure commands when doing your own hacking is what's silly. It was a joke, lighten up... The vanilla use of make install is to populate an empty $(prefix) directory with a pristine, complete, vanilla system. I only talked about a already populated $(prefix) in which case these files might exist already. I agree that an empty $(prefix) should get these files installed, and I never said otherwise. If you want to use make install for overwriting existing stuff selectively, you should expect to have to use some configure or make tweak to get that to happen. Yes, and this is _exactly_ what OVERRIDE_CONF does, and what my second patch does. It overwrites existing stuff selectivley if and only if OVERRIDE_CONF is t; otherwise it doesn't overwrite anything that already exists. If it doesn't exist, it gets installed as usual. Or did you mean "not to overwrite existing stuff"? If you didn't then we both agree, and this whole discussion was pointless. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
