[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.3-cos2

[Cosmin Truta]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * Cosmin Truta <cosmin at cs.toronto.edu> schrieb:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I applied Enrico Weigelt's patches, including the pkgconfig patch,
> > but excluding the destdir patch and the treebuild patch. I find
> > destdir pointless (why not just run "make prefix=/my/prefix" as it
> > is customary with other software?)
>
> Because $prefix is just the prefix of several directories (ie.
> $libdir) within the system tree, where $DESTDIR specifies where the
> system root is while the installation procedure. $prefix is also
> relevant for runtime, where $DESTDIR is not.

I'm not sure I understand. The way I see it, you're introducing an extra
symbol without solving any problem. (Is there any problem, at all?)
Why not just do "make install prefix=/my/prefix libdir=/my/libdir"?

Or, could you please show an instance where $DESTDIR can solve a problem
that cannot be solved (or cannot be solved easily) otherwise?

> > There is a change that doesn't have a changelog entry. Instead, I
> > updated the changelog in-place:
>
> Apropos changelog: is there any reason for not using full names
> w/ email addresses ?

Mark does it this way, and I am just being consistent. I am fine with or
without full names, but I would like to minimize the places in which my
email address is shown, though.

Best regards,
Cosmin