Re: expected behaviour of configure --prefix vs specialized install paths

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org>]

El mié, 10-12-2003 a las 02:25, Malcolm Tredinnick escribió:
> > Does that make "make" rerun "configure" when running make distcheck ?
> > Isn't that a tad overkill ? There has to be a better way.
> 
> That is exactly the way distcheck is meant to work: it makes a
> distribution tarball, unpacks it into a sandbox, runs configure and does
> a build. So configure gets run anyway as part of distcheck. It is a
> complete check of the experience the user will have when building from
> the tarball.

Yeah, I know.   I just thought for some reason it would be reconfiguring
my SOURCE tree, not the new tree it unpacks.  Thanks for clarifying.

Thomas