Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <023001c520e2$fc961880$c40110ac@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <20050303211512.D095557D73@cygbert.vinschen.de> <00ac01c520c7$4fe95680$c40110ac@robinson.cam.ac.uk> <20050304145031.GA23102@cygbert.vinschen.de> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:50:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 14:34, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> --datadir=$(prefix)/share \ >>> --mandir=$(prefix)/share/man \ >> >> Shouldn't those be braces, not parentheses? > > I'm using parenthesis, because they are not expanded before put into > the Makefile. So they refer to the Makefile variable prefix and a > later > > make prefix=/foo > > changes all depending variables. OK. Some configures do try to evaluate them, though (against autoconf guidelines, I know, since it breaks the make prefix=... thing). Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/