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Re: --prefix does not work.

To: Brian Harvell <harvell@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: --prefix does not work.
From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:13:10 +1000 (EST)
Cc: Ken McDonell <kenmcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0108172357250.29194-100000@boondoggle.office.aol.com>
Sender: owner-pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Brian Harvell wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Ken McDonell wrote:
> 
> > In addition to what Mark said ... PCP needs to be started as part of the
> > system reboot, so this means stuffing things in /etc for most Linuxes
> > with no alternatives supported, so this cannot be relocatable, and hence
> > the whole RPM is not relocatable.
> >
> > I don't think config --prefix=... is ever going to work for the PCP RPM
> > ... use pcp.conf.in to selectively move _parts_ of the PCP installation
> > before you build.
> >
> 
> Again I wasn't trying to install an rpm I was trying to build from
> scratch by running configure.
> 

Perhaps we weren't clear enough: PCP does not use --prefix in the
configure part of the build because PCP requires multiple points of
relocation but --prefix only provides one, rendering --prefix useless.

The correct way to relocate PCP directories is to change
src/include/pcp.conf.in. If you still disagree, then you must know
something about --prefix that we are missing, so fix it and send me
a patch!

thanks
-- Mark


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