From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Poole <poole+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: 1.0 sucessfull, install params questions 
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:18:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SOL.3.95L.971212131536.22458A-100000@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <18432.881943033@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00743.html

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> 
>   In message < 9712121155.ZM312@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de >you write:
>   > on a i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (something between Redhat 4.2 and Redhat 5.0,
>   > withlibc 5.3.12 as development lib):
> Congrats.
> 
>   > make install prefix=/tmp/usr/local program-prefix=e
> --prefix must be used at configure time, not at install time.  Trying
> to do it at install time is just going to lead to problems later.

	Why is this?  Tools like Stow (which manages symlink trees
for you) and Depot (which does quite a bit more) generally require
separate a prefix and install-prefix; is having $(prefix)/foo a symlink to
some other location going to cause problems with egcs (for each foo in
the installed egcs files) in and of itself?

- Michael