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Re: Honor DESTDIR in w32api and mingw
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According to Charles Wilson on 10/18/2009 8:14 AM:
> IMO, Keith is being unreasonable about "if DESTDIR doesn't work on
> win32, we shouldn't add support for it even for those platforms where it
> will work". He's graciously allowed that this patch could go in, IF I
> convince the automake and autoconf developers to completely redesign the
> way DESTDIR works so that it accommodates X: paths.
Well, that won't happen unless Keith starts a thread on the autoconf list
giving suggestions on how he thinks it can be fixed. Complaining on the
subscriber-only mingw is the wrong approach to get autoconf to even be
aware of his complaint or ideas for improvement (not that me replying on
the cygwin-patches list is any better ;)
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Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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