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To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: "M. R. Brown" <mrbrown@0xd6.org>, Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: bfd.h installation location
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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:47:00 -0000
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On May 11, 2002, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:

> People who override bfd.h must have some something wrong.

You appear to be simply using different prefixes for each pair
(host,target).

The GNU Coding Standards say that files in $(prefix) should be common
for all hosts (and presumably to all targets), whereas files in
$(exec_prefix) may differ from one host to another.

Since bfd.h may differ from one host to another, it must not be
installed in $(prefix), but rather in $(exec_prefix).

You're free to keep exec_prefix = prefix, as long as you use different
prefixes for different hosts, but this should not be required, since
it's in direct conflict with the GNU Coding Standards.

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