Hello, Guys There are two options for prefixes: --prefix and --copy-prefix. In my opinion they have the same meaning and I wonder whether we need to have two different options for configure and copy commands. Any thoughts? Cheers, Krasimir
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Krasimir Angelov
Hello, Guys
There are two options for prefixes: --prefix and --copy-prefix. In my opinion they have the same meaning and I wonder whether we need to have two different options for configure and copy commands. Any thoughts?
Do you mean whether they should be called the same thing, or whether both commands should have a prefix flag? If it's the former, I don't care overly much, but they do have different behaviors, so I wanted to call them something different so the user didn't think that they could get away with using the copy-prefix flag later on as a drop-in replacement for the prefix flag. In particular, the prefix from configure might get baked into the executables or manpages somehow, whereas the copy-prefix just tells it where to copy stuff. peace, isaac
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:11:28PM +0200, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
There are two options for prefixes: --prefix and --copy-prefix. In my opinion they have the same meaning and I wonder whether we need to have two different options for configure and copy commands. Any thoughts?
The typical procedure for building a Linux binary distribution is to build an image of part of the directory tree on the target system in a subdirectory of the build system. So the place you install to on the build machine (copy-prefix) may differ from the place the files will end up (prefix). For example, you might want to install /usr/share/foo/datafile /usr/bin/foo with the latter having the former name compiled in. Of course you don't want to clobber those on the build machine. So the builder might create files /tmp/build.1234/usr/share/foo/datafile /tmp/build.1234/usr/bin/foo (referring to /usr/share/foo/datafile) so they can move into /tmp/build.1234 to create a tar file that an installer can unpack in the root directory of the target machine. Here we'd have --prefix=/usr --copy-prefix=/tmp/build.1234/usr.
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