Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:22:43 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: alpha-971114: Makefiles revisited
In-Reply-To:	<199711212349.SAA00757@delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971123152225.19570S-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > * It will unconditionally install all the files in '../bin', '../lib'
> > etc., relative to the 'src' directory where the build starts.
> 
> This is the scheme I've been using all along.  It's important to keep
> backups anyway.

Can we *please* have an option to build the libraries and utilities
without overwriting the current ones?

One situation where this might come in handy is when you want to build
a library with non-default options, like -pg.

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