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Re: Fix Makefile.in in data-directory


>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> AFAIK, the FSF recommends against making "make install" also do the build.

The standards don't explicitly say that, they just kind of imply it in a
funny way:

     If possible, write the `install' target rule so that it does not
     modify anything in the directory where the program was built,
     provided `make all' has just been done.  This is convenient for
     building the program under one user name and installing it under
     another.

This doesn't say anything about the behavior when 'all' was not just
invoked...

Though, ISTR that gdb always rebuilds some stuff on "make all".
That is bad independently though.

Tom


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