On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:25:19AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > > That idea won't fly. Because --prefix is also used by distribution packagers > > to install svn into a fake prefix to prepare for packaging. > > In which case they do want the apache modules. > > I'd expect packagers to use the true, final destination in --prefix and > then to set DESTDIR during 'make install' when building the package.
Correct, that is what happens, yes. Thanks for correcting me. But they still use --prefix, so deciding wether or not to install apache modules based on whether a --prefix option was passed is not a good idea.
