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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:52:04 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: building cygwin.dll instructions
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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.

Earnie.

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