From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:26:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install
Message-ID: <8aa486160606150426q19b0a661s@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0J0V00LDT7B9BU00@mxout2.netvision.net.il>

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