Re: Why relink the library during make install?

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Lew writes:
> I have a problem build and install gettext-1.11.3.  In our environment
> the build prefix specified with the configure phase is different than
> the prefix specified in the make install.

This is not supported. Too many things can go wrong if this is
attempted.

> We have another process which will setup the symbolic links *after*
> make install so for the users the application can be accessed from the
> prefix as defined in the configure phase.

In this case you can should simply use
configure --prefix=/auto/insbu-cnstools/kit/gettext-0.11.3/auto/insbu-cnstools

> We have been using this method for years until recently we noticed
> that the make install process will attempt to relink the program with
> the prefix for installation.  This is not a desired behavior for us,

This is necessary because of the way shared library dependencies work.

Bruno