From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:24:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install
Message-ID: <20060618112404.GA2446@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vk67gbbe9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2006-06-16 22:26:38 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not know what "stow" is about, but if it is to allow you to run
> make-install to install things in somewhere else, examine the
> result, and then move the result to the real location (implying that
> you should be able to nuke the "somewhere else" after you have done
> so), with the patch, the above sequence would install the binaries
> pointing at a wrong directory, because the second compilation would
> make them point at the temporary installation directory
> ~/usr/stow/git, not the final location ~/usr/.

GNU stow doesn't move installed programs, it just maintains symlinks
to them. You install programs under /usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11, and
stow sets up symlinks to them under /usr/local. (So for example,
/usr/local/bin/foo would be a symlink to
/usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11/bin/foo.) This gives you the ability to
nuke an installed program cleanly. And it just works, pathwise, since
the program remains in its original location.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle