From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16708 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1999 02:18:02 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Oct 1999 02:18:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 13030 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 1999 02:17:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8435 Received: (qmail 13022 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1999 02:17:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:17:40 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Bruce Stephens Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: 3.0 DESTDIR Message-ID: <19991026221740.A20449@dman.com> References: <991019052248.ZM4198@candle.brasslantern.com> <991019061342.ZM4317@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991023204554.A31639@dman.com> <991024015558.ZM1246@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024010545.A1872@dman.com> <991024062032.ZM1682@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024103020.A5395@dman.com> <87r9ikyfph.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <87r9ikyfph.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk>; from bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk on Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 03:51:38PM +0100 > Can't you use "make install prefix=..." there, too? In 3.0 you can. No in 3.1, because the function and modules directories are reset and hardcoded to the absolute paths. Many other programs do this and don't support DESTDIR, and they are an annoyance. perl for instance. GNU awk. texinfo. texutils..