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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:41:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: the w32api path change
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:13:37AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Robert Collins wrote:
>> 
>> Earnie.. It really does break stuff, even for local installs,
>> 
>> ie a prefix of /usr installs insto /usr/usr
>> 
>> Is there any reason the change can't be simply backed out, and when a
>> better alternative to achieve your goal arises put that into place?
>> 
>
>I've committed the attached patch that should help.  This isn't perfect
>yet and will change in the future but it should help both this case as
>well as the cross-compile case.  The case that doesn't work as expected
>is the `make install prefix=/non/configured/prefix' in which case you
>get /non/configured/prefix/usr/include/w32api and
>/non/configure/prefix/usr/lib/w32api.
>
>Comments/complaints/flames welcome.

I really don't understand.  It wasn't broken before.  Why are you
something that wasn't broken?

If you explain what you're trying to do it might help.

Putting things in /usr/usr/include and /usr/usr/lib is not ever going to
be a proper solution.

cgf

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