From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>
To: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Coding convention: use of `!x' vs. `! x'
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000925143649.B29880@disaster.jaj.com>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:08:42AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Would you say much of the problems are coming from the fact that the
> standards support things like
> 
>         ./configure
>         make prefix=/foo
> 
> ?  I'm personally strongly in favor of deprecating this practice, and
> support only
> 
>         ./configure --prefix
>         make

Well, but

   configure --prefix=/foo
   make
   make prefix=/bar install

needs to be supported.


Phil

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