Re: Why relink the library during make install?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.

The GNU Coding Standard is quite specific that no re-compilation should
be done when supplying `prefix' to `make install'.

(standards) Directory Variables:
...
     Running `make install' with a different value of `prefix' from the
     one used to build the program should _not_ recompile the program.

...

If gettext doesn't follow this, then it should be fixed at once.
There are several reasons to use prefix (I favour the usage of DESTDIR
though) in conjunction with `make install'.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt