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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:50:33 -0000
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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.


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