Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:17:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: building cygwin.dll instructions Message-ID: <20010411221728.C31881@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <043601c0c2f0$ff29c140$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3AD50A44.1DBDF389@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3AD50A44.1DBDF389@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:52:04PM -0400 On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:52:04PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Robert Collins wrote: >> >> Can I suggest that the use of --prefix be documented? I mistakenly >> used --prefix=/usr and trashed my system a month or so ago - I just >> realised I never suggested it be documented. Something along the lines >> of >> >> "Don't use a --prefix that refers to the final destination. Use >> a --prefix like "/usr/src/installcygwin" and from there take the files >> to your actual working directories." >> > >IMO you should `../src/configure --prefix=/usr ...' and then do `make >install prefix=`pwd`/nstl' (or whatever directory you wish to install >them in). The reason for that has to do with the way some packages >hardcode absolute paths relative to the configured prefix. I have *got* to learn to read further into a thread before responding. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple