Re: make install / parallel

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:43:23AM CET:
> On 1/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, I suppose we should special-case _SCRIPTS (and maybe _PROGRAMS,
> > too) then for the case where --program-{prefix,suffix,transform-name}
> > have not been set.
> >
> > Relying on whether $(transform) equals `s,x,x,' seems really ugly.
> > Could get fancier and see whether none of the files actually changed
> > names under the transform...  Hmm.  Maybe in a followup patch.
> 
> I don't understand what any of that means :) :) :)

Well, if you
  ./configure --program-prefix=g

then `make install' will copy a script `foo' to `$bindir/gfoo'.
That doesn't work well with `install foo bar baz $bindir'.
Renaming files in the build tree is fragile (will cause make rebuilding
rules to trigger, could even break packages with a naming clash).

> I will test out a follow up patch, however, should you decide to do it.

I don't see a nice solution yet.

Cheers,
Ralf