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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 4 14:34, Max Bowsher wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
  --datadir=$(prefix)/share \
  --mandir=$(prefix)/share/man \

Shouldn't those be braces, not parentheses?

I'm using parenthesis, because they are not expanded before put into the Makefile. So they refer to the Makefile variable prefix and a later

make prefix=/foo

changes all depending variables.

OK. Some configures do try to evaluate them, though (against autoconf guidelines, I know, since it breaks the make prefix=... thing).


Max.


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