Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:58:25 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:00:43 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked], Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> 
> Don't change `prefix' at install time.
> You should only set prefix with configure.

IMNSHO, there's nothing wrong with

   make install prefix=/foo/bar

I have yet to see a package that doesn't support that.