Re: configure ignores --prefix argument

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 20:59 -0700, James Peach wrote:
> 
> 
> Actually it's possible that it works find in the SGI tree as well.
> The  
> problem seems to be that the GNUmakefile hardcodes how to run
> configure.
> 
> this
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/foo && make
> 
> will actually run configure twice, the second time without any  
> arguments. To get it right, you need to do this
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/foo && touch config.done && make
> 
> Once you do this, prefix takes effect as expected.

Hmm, it'd seem to be a good idea to make the configure script
touch config.done at the end, on success, in that case.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan