Re: [PATCH] auto-detect changed $prefix in Makefile and properly rebuild to avoid broken install

On 2006-06-16 22:26:38 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I do not know what "stow" is about, but if it is to allow you to run
make-install to install things in somewhere else, examine the
result, and then move the result to the real location (implying that
you should be able to nuke the "somewhere else" after you have done
so), with the patch, the above sequence would install the binaries
pointing at a wrong directory, because the second compilation would
make them point at the temporary installation directory
~/usr/stow/git, not the final location ~/usr/.

GNU stow doesn't move installed programs, it just maintains symlinks
to them. You install programs under /usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11, and
stow sets up symlinks to them under /usr/local. (So for example,
/usr/local/bin/foo would be a symlink to
/usr/local/stow/foo-4.7.11/bin/foo.) This gives you the ability to
nuke an installed program cleanly. And it just works, pathwise, since
the program remains in its original location.

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