Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > 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.
We have had similar discussions in the past about where the bindings should install. I think everything should install under prefix by default. -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com
