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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
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At 04:54 PM 3/14/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
 >
 >> OTOH, when (re)building a package which has info docs using the
 >> standard configure/make/make install facilities, install-info is 
very
 >> likely to be run automatically.
 >
 >I didn't think about this, perhaps because I never run "make install" 

 >without overriding $prefix, so that the programs and files go to
 >another directory.  I then copy files from there manually, based on
 >what I need.
 >
 >If many people tend to use "make install", perhaps we need to do
 >something about that.

I don't know about others, but my general practice is to establish a 
duplicate DJGPP setup on another partition, since I do not use a 
sub-directory to install DJGPP in the first place.  I then do new 
configures and makes and make install's from the source directory in 
the "test" setup.

If I used a sub-directory to install DJGPP, I would set up a new 
"djgpp-test" copy of DJGPP and build from source there.

All this extra setup work comes from my paranoia about accidentally 
wrecking my "production" setup, and my decades of mainframe experience 
in making sure that new versions of software have a "development" 
sandbox to play in, which I do not have to worry about them breaking.

When I'm happy that it's "ready", then I rebuild it in the "production" 
environment so I don't have to itemize and manually copy all of the 
installed elements; that's what make install is supposed to do for me 
:)
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)