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> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:08:38 -0500
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
> 
> 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.

Exactly the same thing here.  In addition, my production tree is
modified in small but significant ways, so I'm _positive_ a
simple-minded "make install" *will* ruin something there.

> All this extra setup work comes from my paranoia about accidentally 
> wrecking my "production" setup

Right.

> 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 
> :)

What I do instead is produce a fooNNNb.zip file from the test tree,
and then unzip it over my production tree.  Since making a binary zip
involves producing a .mft file, it forces me to decide what files to
include and which not to.  The result is that I only put into the zip
files that are to be distributed, and that excludes any DIR files.

So in my production tree, packages are never installed by "make install".