Re: [PATCH] Allow 'prefix' to be set on the command line

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:34 AM, Peter Jones wrote:

> This patch allows you to:
>
>  make install prefix=/some/path
>
> Makes installing Org-mode in a non-standard path a bit easier.

I have noticed that at least my version of make (GNU make 3.81) does  
allow me to set
the prefix like that out of the box, without the need add the "?"  
before the = sign.


So I am now inclined to to remove this change again.  Peter, which  
version of make do *not* allow the prefix to be specified in this way?

- Carsten

>
>
> From e0b6b847c6b8a4b0c41aff3bab0ea2fe5e45c082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Jones <pjones@pmade.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:22:59 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] Allow 'prefix' to be set on the command line
>
> This patch allows you to:
>
>  make install prefix=/some/path
> ---
> Makefile |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 35684f3..19fa9ca 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> EMACS=emacs
>
> # Where local software is found
> -prefix=/usr/local
> +prefix?=/usr/local
>
> # Where local lisp files go.
> lispdir = $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp
> -- 
> 1.5.4.4
>
>
> -- 
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