Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL and cross-compilation

[Peter Eisentraut]

David Burg writes:

> Still working on cross-compilation. I have solve some portability trouble so
> now it is compiling but there are linking trouble. The cause is that the
> generated library are installed in the wrong path :
>
> /usr/local/lib

which is the default for --prefix

> instead of a path like /usr/local/target-cpu/lib

which is just another random possibility

> I know AC_PROG_INSTALL set the path where the files are installed, but does
> this macro work with cross-compilation or not ?

AC_PROG_INSTALL only finds the install program and has nothing to do with
cross-compiling (apart from install -s possibly).

If you want your package to install somewhere other than the default you
need to use the --prefix option.

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