Re: Why relink the library during make install?

[Russ Allbery]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

This is probably true for Linux packages (and by that, I mean the sad
quantity of software that only runs on Linux systems -- I'm intentionally
not including the GNU/ prefix here because it's frequently not even
portable enough to run on other glibc systems).  But if you dive into the
broader world of somewhat more obscure software, particularly older stuff,
DESTDIR is a fairly new concept but prefix has been around for a long
time.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>