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On 06/17/2013 10:35 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
I'm confused. Let me ask a different way - why not fix such scripts instead? That's all I'm asking.Andrew DeFaria writes:I'm trying to understand the reluctance towards "fixing the problem" and instead the insistence on "putting a band aid on it". So in the above, why would you not instead do --prefix=/usr/local?Because some scripts try to use $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX) rather than $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX) or otherwise insist on adding a slash somewhere in the expansion of directory paths without checking whether they are "" or "/". While it'd be preferable that these expansions be fixed, simply prepending a few more slashes usually works when the system follows POSIX rules since only "//" is special.
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