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| From: | Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-amd64@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Change Install Prefix | ||
| Date: | Fri, 01 May 2009 00:31:48 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090501003140.GA21258@crud.chemoelectric.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-amd64] Re: Change Install Prefix by Nikos Chantziaras |
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| 1 | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> skribis: |
| 2 | > It would not. At least not always. A compiled package might look for |
| 3 | > it's datafiles in /usr/share. If you compile it with --prefix=/usr and |
| 4 | > then move it to /usr/local, the program will obviously not work. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > I know because I wrote software that does exactly this :P |
| 7 | |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Yeah, I think we've all written software that obviously does not |
| 10 | work. We just don't talk about it a lot. :) |