Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

[Guido Draheim]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately not - "make install bindir=/alternatelocation".
> >
> >
> > > I prefer that over a switch, with a default
> > > value for the variable of ../bin.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think that a switch is the only way, if we are to deal with the case I
> > cite above.
>
> The Makefile sets
> LIBTOOL := bindir=$(bindir) $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool
>
> Then:
> Test for the existance of bindir in the libtool script, if it doesn't 
> exist set it to ../bin if it does exist the Makefile has passed it to 
> libtool via an environment variable.
>
> This works for `make install bindir=/alternatelocation".

Don't forget DESTDIR !