Re: guile & automake

[Robert Uhl <address@hidden>]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Though it is *very much appreciated* when packages are written so
> that "make PREFIX=`pwd`/debian/tmp` install" works.  You don't need
> to be able to run the package from the non --prefix dir, but being
> able to install it somewhere else temporarily makes life *much*
> easier on packagers like Debian (and I'd assume RedHat).

Oh yeah.  We use stow at work, and essentially the compile/install
process is:

./configure && make && sudo make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/$package
cd /usr/local/stow
sudo stow $package

But there are some packages out there which don't play well with
this.  Dashed annoying, let me tell you.

-- 
Robert Uhl <address@hidden>
He was opposed to the use of force.  Force, he believed, was the last
resort of incompetence; he had said so frequently enough since this
operation had begun.  Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in
the way he meant.  Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to
use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even
prayer.                                              --H. Beam Piper