Re: gettext

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>> * For other platforms, in particular Linux, it is implementable,
>>   under two forms: "make install DESTDIR=..." and "make install prefix=...".
>>   These two forms are equivalent, as you demonstrated through

>>      ln -s /afs/.example.com /tmp/destdir/afs/example.com

> That's obviously not equivalent.  It again requires an extra minor step
> and requires people to change their build machinery from what used to
> work.

> That would still arguably be the right thing to do if make install
> prefix=... required you to do some additional work.  But it doesn't.  It's
> supported automatically by Automake, and was supported by previous
> versions of gettext.

> So I'll ask again:  why drop support for a feature that people use?

Or maybe I'm confused, and you're talking about some other feature.  The
more I read your message, the more I don't understand what you
implemented.  libtool already doesn't relink binaries on Solaris or Linux
(or IRIX, or Tru64), so why would this issue even come up on those
platforms?

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>