[Kde-perl] PREFIX/prefix request

[Jaco Greeff]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:02:40 +0000, Germain Garand 
<germain@ebooksfrance.com> wrote : 
> Le Jeudi 06 Mars 2003 08:07, Jaco Greeff a écrit : 
<snip> 
> > 
> > make PREFIX=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr \ 
> >          prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr install 
> > 
<snip> 
> Yes, several people have requested that, but it's not that simple... 
> given that we use the KDE build system, "prefix" often points to the KDE 
root  
> dir (libsmokeqt.so, as a KDE library, should be installed there if KDE is  
> installed), whereas "PREFIX" points to the root of the Perl hierarchy... 
> They are rarely the same. 
 
Ahh, ok, understood. In my case it is the same since Mandrake installs 
KDE with a non-standard /usr prefix. (Not meant to be MDK bashing, it is 
my distro of choice :) For most others it won't be. Ok, I can live with that 
one until we find a solution around this. 
 
Greetings, 
Jaco