GNU bug report logs - #16772
Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #104 received at 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:13:59 -0500

Glenn Morris wrote:

>>    make install prefix=/foo/bar
[...]
> Oh, OK. Seems weird to me though.
> Why did GNU invent DESTDIR then?

For the record, I see my questions are answered in

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Installation-Names.html
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