Re: Why relink the library during make install?

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:23:47PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> 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'.

Libtool is the one doing the relinking. And, I believe it is correct
in doing so.

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albert chin (address@hidden)