From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69786 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2015 19:04:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 69757 invoked by uid 48); 10 Jun 2015 19:04:05 -0000 From: "msebor at redhat dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug build/18512] make install failure with overridden prefix Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:04:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: build X-Bugzilla-Version: 2.21 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: msebor at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: WAITING X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-06/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18512 --- Comment #3 from Martin Sebor --- In section 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories, the GNU Coding Standard describes the prefix fix variable as the mechanism expected to be used to override the standard installation directory. If GLIBC doesn't supported this use case (which I would find understandable), I propose mentioning it in GLIBC documentation (i.e., in the INSTALL file and online). In fact, I already have a patch for INSTALL to that effect but have been waiting for feedback on this issue before submitting it. With the patch accepted I think the issue can be resolved. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.