Re: About configure (was: Re: [Axiom-developer] confusion over patch suggestion)

[Mark Murray]

Tim Daly writes:
> Actually, I've been muttering to myself about that.
> There is no longer a reason why we need to set the AXIOM variable first.
> If you just incanted something like:
> make SYS=linux
> then the makefile could construct the correct system. I'll test this
> as soon as I can and consider making the change.

That would be excellent, thank you! It would also be nice if there was
a way to tell the build where the final install point of the code was,
so you could do a "make SYS=FreeBSD PREFIX=/usr/local" to get the a build
that is ready for /usr/local/*. Or something :-).

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