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Re: gettext
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: gettext |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:10:14 -0700 |
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Alfred M Szmidt <address@hidden> writes:
> Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
>> DESTDIR is not a proper replacement for changing prefix at
>> install-time. DESTDIR assumes a simple prefix to the build-time path,
>> which is wrong for many existing site-wide software setups using, e.g.,
>> AFS.
> Huh, I don't understand this. DESTDIR is the correct way of installing
> things, just like using prefix is. Only that DESTDIR is prepended to
> all installation targets. DESTDIR has nothing to do with any kind of
> build time information, as it is only used in the install targets.
> Where prefix (and the rest) may be used to hard code paths at compile
> time.
DESTDIR is prepended to the runtime path. It can't be an arbitrarily
different path.
If I built something to use /afs/example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local as its
prefix and want to install in /afs/.example.com/sw/@sys/usr/local, which
is a common thing to want to do with AFS since the former is a read-only
path and the later is a read/write path, I can't do that with DESTDIR.
Changing prefix at install-time works fine, though.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- gettext, (continued)
- gettext, Daniel R. Grayson, 2002/07/14
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Daniel R. Grayson, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext,
Russ Allbery <=
- Re: gettext, Bob Proulx, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/15
- Re: gettext, Tom Tromey, 2002/07/15
- Re: *****SPAM***** Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/16
- Re: gettext, Miles Bader, 2002/07/16
- Re: gettext, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2002/07/16
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/16
- Re: gettext, Bruno Haible, 2002/07/24
- Re: gettext, Russ Allbery, 2002/07/24
- Re: gettext, Stepan Kasal, 2002/07/25