From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:44:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install
Message-ID: <20060618144447.GB2446@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmga1y9k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2006-06-18 04:47:19 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> If that's the case, I think it makes the original problem Santi
> brought up a non-issue. In this sequence:
>
>         make prefix=/home/santi/usr
>         make install prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git
>         cd /home/santi/usr/stow/
>         stow -v git
>
> the building phase could have used the same prefix as the install
> phase uses, and git can find its subprograms in gitexecdir (=
> ~/usr/stow/git/bin) just fine. It probably is even slightly more
> efficient since it does not have to go through the symlink stow
> installs.

Yes, exactly. I've always built git like this:

  $ make prefix=/usr/local/stow/git
  $ sudo make prefix=/usr/local/stow/git install
  $ cd /usr/local/stow
  $ sudo stow git

It works for all other programs I've tried too (most of which only
require me to specify the prefix once, with ./configure --prefix=...).
The programs never need to know about the symlinks; they're only there
for when other programs need to access them (via PATH, etc.).

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