From: Santi Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:49:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install Message-ID: <8aa486160606150549n4b55912ap@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 2006/6/15, Yakov Lerner : > On 6/15/06, Santi wrote: > > Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:26 +0300, Yakov Lerner : > > > 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. > > I'm not familiar with stow. Does stow create some kind of symlinks from > /home/santi/usr/stow/git to home/santi/usr ? It makes links from .../usr/ to .../usr/stow/git/, for expample: $ls -l ~/usr/bin/git lrwxrwxrwx 1 santi santi 19 2006-06-01 09:42 /home/santi/usr/bin/git -> ../stow/git/bin/git* > If so, why can't you > use prefix=/home/santi/usr/stow/git both in 'make' and in 'make install' ? > Would this work ? For the few tests I've made it does works, but it is not the recommended method from the stow developers, and I suppose they know better than me. > > BTW, is it possible to have git use argv[0] to automatically determine > the executable_dir without compiled-in paths ? > > Yakov >