Re: Why relink the library during make install?

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Stepan Kasal) writes:
> Bruno has explained this in another thread.  Not that he doesn't like
> DESTDIR, he choosed DESTDIR over prefix for some reason and dived into
> libtool to make it work.  He doesn't volunteer to fix libtool for
> prefix too.

I recall someone else on this thread saying that libtool _does_ handle
this correctly, at least for GNU systems; is that wrong then?

If it's a bug in libtool I guess that we should stop bugging Bruno and
start bugging the libtool maintainers instead.

> I remember that when working for SuSE, I've learned to prefer DESTDIR over
> prefix, since prefix doesn't work for all packages.  I don't remember the
> actual packages, sorry.  But it was about three years ago, so gettext
> definitely is not first package for which this doesn't work.

It's been a while since I had to do large number of non-local package
installations, but it certainly used to be the case that prefix worked
_far_ more often than DESTDIR (which usually simply wasn't implemented
at all).  It may be that widespread adoption of automake has changed the
calculation (though I suspect not -- automake supports both, so at best
it's reduced the advantage of using prefix).

-Miles
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