Re: Can I compile with MMX and SSE/SSE2 instruction sets ?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu dot edu>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Nix wrote:

> On 26 Jun 2012, Carlos O'Donell told this:
> > We need to decide if we want to fix install_root for all the
> > users that are already expecting it to work.
>
> Given the likely triviality of the fix, is it really worth agonizing
> over it? I mean, it's no more than this, isn't it?
>
> diff --git a/config.make.in b/config.make.in
> index 65410ab..da8fcbd 100644
> --- a/config.make.in
> +++ b/config.make.in
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ version = @VERSION@
> release = @RELEASE@
>
> # Installation prefixes.
> -install_root = $(DESTDIR)
> +install_root ?= $(DESTDIR)

I'm puzzled by the reported failure of "install_root" to do what 
it's supposed to. I've been using that formulation for years, to 
install new builds of glibc into /tmp/glibc-N.M from where I make a 
tarball, which I subsequently untar into the system location using a 
bootable CD (SystemRescueCd). This worked fine for me with glibc 
2.15. I use the invocation, for example,

make install_root=/tmp/glibc-2.15 install

and nothing spills into system locations. I don't mind using DESTDIR 
instead; I just don't understand the complaint.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University