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Posted to dev@perl.apache.org by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org> on 2005/02/17 04:38:01 UTC

Re: [mp2] [PATCH] DESTDIR does not apply to mod_perl.so and includes

Cory Omand wrote:
[...]
>>That's better, Cory, but why introducing new variables? you still kept the 
>>old ones, but they aren't used anymore, are they? (e.g. AP_LIBEXECDIR) 
>>Looks like a lot of extra noise.
>>
>>May be keep the old makefile vars unchanged but merge the new prefix 
>>transparently into those vars if the prefix exists? or at least drop the 
>>not-used vars?
> 
> 
> My initial thought was that this should behave like DESTDIR for
> other packages -- it is only set on installation.  Therefore, when
> you are using AP_LIBEXECDIR, you know it is pointing to where things
> will be when installed, but AP_LIBEXECDESTDIR is not referenced
> anywhere in the compilation portions of the makefile.  As I have
> another look through the makefile, however, it appears that the
> only purpose of the MODPERL_AP_* variables is for installation, so
> maybe moving to use the existing variable names is fine...
> 
> Another patch is attached --

Looks perfect to me, Cory

(it will need a few tiny style tweaks, but don't worry about that).

+1

once others vote on this it can go in.

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