Quanah Gibson-Mount added the comment:
Thank you very much for looking at it. :) Since I can work around it easily
enough, I'm set for now, but it would be great to see Python play nicely with
stow in a future release.
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Quanah Gibson-Mount added the comment:
Ok, so the general idea is to be able to install your software in a specific
location and then symlink it back into another location (like /usr/local).
This allows quick and easy software version swapping. I've used it to do
things like test maria
Quanah Gibson-Mount added the comment:
Or to summarize a bit differently --
the point of DESTDIR is to allow you to install your software in some location
other than what was specified with --prefix, without losing the --prefix
settings
New submission from Quanah Gibson-Mount:
I found that when trying to use Python with the "stow" utility, that it
incorrectly hard codes the full DESTDIR path into python, instead of the
relative portion of the DESTDIR path. As a result, DESTDIR usage is
fundamentally broken in r
