Re: BUG?? INSTALL MAKEFILE

From: Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2009, 16:26 UTC
Message-ID: <49638625.3090109@tedpavlic.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqiqosa3fc.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

> but then realized that prefix is set to $(HOME) by default. Are you
> sure you didn't edit the Makefile or run any sort of ./configure
> before "make install" ?

After doing a

	git clean -f

in my local git repo, I notice that:

	config.mak.autogen

still exists, and inside it:

	prefix = /usr/local

That file is included in the Makefile *after* prefix is set, and so if it's not updated, the Makefile will default to /usr/local.

According to the INSTALL doc, the default prefix should be ~. However, this is certainly not the case. Either the INSTALL doc needs to be updated or a new default config.mak.autogen needs to be checked in (or perhaps config.mak.autogen needs to be omitted from the repo?).

--Ted

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Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>