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Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install

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SSanti <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2006, 11:26 UTC
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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:26 +0300, Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>:
> Many times, I mistakenly used 'make prefix=... install' where prefix value
> was different from prefix value during build. This resulted in broken
> install. This patch adds auto-detection of $prefix change to the Makefile.
> This results in correct install whenever prefix is changed.

I do this each time I install packages from source. I keep them with "stow" and the usual sequence is:

make prefix=/home/santi/usr make install prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git cd /home/santi/usr/stow/ stow -v git

so with this auto-detection I'll compile some programs twice.
Santi
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  1. auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken installYakov Lerner, Jun 14, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2006
  3. Yakov LernerJun 14, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2006
  5. Yakov LernerJun 14, 2006
  6. Matthias LederhoferJun 15, 2006
  7. Yakov LernerJun 15, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisJun 18, 2006
  9. SantiJun 15, 2006
  10. Yakov LernerJun 15, 2006
  11. SantiJun 15, 2006
  12. Alexander LitvinovJun 15, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2006
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  15. Karl HasselströmJun 18, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2006
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