Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/12/17:25:32
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 12:16:32PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Let's see, are you saying that `make install prefix=`pwd`/nstl' should
> >create
> > nstl/include
> > nstl/lib
> >instead of
> > nstl/usr/include/w32api
> > nstl/usr/lib/w32api
> >when the $(target_alias) = 'cygwin'?
>
> Yes. That is standard gnu behavior.
>
I agree. But somewhere along the way someone added this exception for
Cygwin. I was just trying to enhance it.
> >Before my changes it would create
> > nstl/include/w32api
> > nstl/lib/w32api
> >is this what you think it still should be? Since it is target specific
> >I believe creating nst/usr/include/w32api, etc. is correct. All other
> >targets should create nstl/include, etc.
> >
> >How is it "screwed up" for cross-compilation?
>
> With your change and without a prefix the libraries are installed in
> .../i686-pc-cygwin/usr/lib rather than .../i686-pc-cygwin/lib ."
>
> I don't agree that you should be forcing a usr in there at all. That
> is the point of exec_prefix and prefix. I haven't tried this, but
> it seems like if you:
>
> configure --exec-prefix=/usr --prefix=/usr
>
> you will end up with /usr/usr/include and /usr/usr/lib directories.
> That is obviously wrong.
>
I see that. I'll correct it but maybe not before the release.
> With your change the behavior of w32api varies from the rest of the
> whole src toolchain.
>
It was already different, I just made it more different and it's only
different for Cygwin. I'll continue to look at this and fix it.
Earnie.
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