Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[Nicola Pero]

> > The other problem is that if you go into a subdirectory of gnustep- 
> > gui and install only
> > that subdirectory, unless you have an installation_domain file in  
> > each subdirectory,
> > your domain installation preference would be ignored and you'd end  
> > up with stuff
> > in the wrong place.
> >
> > I thought a single central configuration file would be the simplest  
> > option and would
> > prevent such problems.
>
> I don't think so. In fact, it looks even worse to me since you would  
> have to copy the
> PACKAGE_NAME variable definition into the GNUmakefile of every  
> subdirectory where you
> possibly could run make install.

We always had this problem in that we had to "copy"  
GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=SYSTEM
in all and every GNUmakefile of a project that was meant to  
"automatically" install into System. ;-)

In the end, I'm now tempted by Richard's suggestion of just forgetting  
about all this and going back to square one.
That is, everything is installed into Local by default and if you need  
to do anything different, you can use
shell variables, shell aliases, shell scripts and all the other Unix  
things to automate repetitive tasks.

Comments welcome.

Thanks