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From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
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
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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