[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60413] build: sed expression problems when prefix is empty or slash

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #60413 (project octave):

Markus - I'm not completely clear on the use case that this code was added to
solve. Is this meant solely for the case where you are building an Octave
bundle with all libraries and tools installed into the same ${prefix}, and you
then want that entire bundle to be relocatable after installing on a target
system?

I think the assumption that Octave's ${prefix} is the same as FFTW's ${prefix}
or GCC's ${prefix}, or any other library, definitely isn't universal, if
that's what's going on here. It certainly does seem to make sense for the
Windows bundle, where you're building and including an entire GNU runtime in
the same tree.

I think for most GNU/Linux users, a relocatable Octave would only substitute
the directories that have to do with Octave itself, and not touch variables
like CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, because those external libraries aren't necessarily
going to be moving along with Octave.

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