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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu <at> gmail.com, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#16772: Failure in "make install" on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:58:25 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:00:43 -0500
> Cc: 16772 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> 
> 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.
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