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From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
To: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:26:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8aa486160606150426q19b0a661s@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-15 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-14 19:26 [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install Yakov Lerner
2006-06-14 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-14 20:30   ` Yakov Lerner
2006-06-14 21:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-14 21:38       ` Yakov Lerner
2006-06-15  9:26         ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-15 11:11           ` Yakov Lerner
2006-06-18 13:31   ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-15 11:26 ` Santi [this message]
2006-06-15 11:40   ` Yakov Lerner
2006-06-15 12:49     ` Santi
2006-06-15 13:00       ` Alexander Litvinov
2006-06-17  5:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-17  5:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-18 11:24     ` Karl Hasselström
2006-06-18 11:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-18 14:44         ` Karl Hasselström

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